James Webb Space Telescope detects ‘most distant active supermassive black hole’

Researchers observed two more black holes that are on the smaller side and existed 1 billion and 1.1 billion years after the Big Bang

Researchers have discovered the most distant active supermassive black hole to date (NASA/ESA/CSA/Steve Finkelstein/ Micaela Bagley/ Rebecca Larson/UT Austin/PA)

Researchers have discovered the most distant active supermassive black hole to date with the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST).

The CEERS 1019 galaxy existed about 570 million years after the Big Bang, and its black hole is less massive than any other yet identified in the early universe.