JWST finds cosmic monster ruling tiny early galaxy: Was it forged by black holes from the Big Bang?

An illustration of many black holes spir4alinging into a larger central black hole.

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers observing a monstrous black hole in an unspoiled galaxy just 700 million years after the Big Bang have found a hint at how these celestial titans grew.

The observations could indicate that supermassive black holes in the early universe grew from so-called primordial black holes, created by density fluctuations just after the Big Bang.