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Robert Lea

James Webb Space Telescope spots most distant and oldest black hole collision ever seen (video)

Three panels are shown showing an increasingly small area of the PRIMER galaxy field. The first image shows a large field of galaxies on the black background of space. The second image shows a smaller region from this field, revealing the galaxies in closer detail, appearing in a variety of shapes and colours. The final image shows the ZS7 galaxy system, revealing the ionised hydrogen emission in orange and the doubly ionised oxygen.

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have found the most distant merger between supermassive black holes ever detected. 

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