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Hannah Devlin Science correspondent

Revealed: the oldest black hole ever observed, dating to dawn of universe

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galaxy cluster — The new observations are unseeable because no light escapes the black hole, but astronomers detected telltale signatures of its accretion disk, the halo of gas and dust that swirls rapidly around it. Photograph: X-ray: Nasa/CXC/SAO/Ákos Bogdán; Infrared: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI; Image Processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/L. Frattare & K. Arcand

Astronomers have detected the oldest black hole ever observed, dating back more than 13bn years to the dawn of the universe.

The observations, by the James Webb space telescope (JWST), reveal it to be at the heart of a galaxy 440m years after the big bang. At around a million times the mass of the sun, it is surprisingly big for a baby black hole, raising the question of how it grew so big so quickly.

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