by It's a bonanza: The universe is absolutely teeming with black holes.
Researchers have long known this, but less massive black holes that existed in the early universe were too dim to detect—that is until the James Webb Space Telescope began taking observations.
Researchers behind the Cosmic Evolution Early Release Science (CEERS) Survey are among the first to begin plucking these bright, extremely distant objects from Webb's highly detailed images and data.
Researchers have discovered the most distant active supermassive black hole to date with the James Webb Space Telescope.
The galaxy, CEERS 1019, existed just over 570 million years after the big bang, and its black hole is less massive than any other yet identified in the early universe.
Not only that, they've easily "shaken out" two more black holes that are also on the smaller side, and existed 1 and 1.1 billion years after the big bang.
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Researchers have long known this, but less massive black holes that existed in the early universe were too dim to detect—that is until the James Webb Space Telescope began taking observations.
Researchers behind the Cosmic Evolution Early Release Science (CEERS) Survey are among the first to begin plucking these bright, extremely distant objects from Webb's highly detailed images and data.
Researchers have discovered the most distant active supermassive black hole to date with the James Webb Space Telescope.
The galaxy, CEERS 1019, existed just over 570 million years after the big bang, and its black hole is less massive than any other yet identified in the early universe.
Not only that, they've easily "shaken out" two more black holes that are also on the smaller side, and existed 1 and 1.1 billion years after the big bang.
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