cosmic dawn

This impossibly huge black hole wasn’t very hungry at the beginning of time

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Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have discovered a supermassive black hole at “cosmic dawn” that appears impossibly massive. The confusion stems from the fact that it doesn’t appear that this gigantic void was feasting on much surrounding matter at the time – but to reach its immense size you would expect it … Read more

James Webb Space Telescope discovers the two earliest galaxies ever seen (image)

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The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has discovered not one but two of the earliest and most distant galaxies ever discovered, continuing to break the records it previously set. The most distant galaxy, JADES-GS-z14-0, is seen as it was about 300 million years after the Big Bang and existed at least 100 million years earlier … Read more