James Webb Telescope discovers universe's oldest black hole
By - Ayush Singh
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The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has found the oldest black hole ever seen.
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It is an extremely ancient giant, weighing as much as 1.6 million suns, and it existed 13 billion years ago in the universe's past.
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the supermassive black hole at the center of the infant galaxy GN-z11, born just 440 million years after the universe began.
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These black holes rapidly grew during the cosmic dawn, a period about 100 million years after the Big Bang when the universe began glowing.
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The process of how these cosmic black holes grew so quickly after the universe's beginning remains unclear, posing a fascinating mystery for scientists.
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In contrast to present-day black holes born from collapsing giant stars, ancient black holes must have undergone peculiar births and growth processes.
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