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Astronomers Use JWST to Map Ancient Supermassive Black Hole

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Astronomers have found a huge, dust-reddened quasar that existed less than a billion years after the Big Bang.

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Astronomers have discovered a huge black hole, which is actively growing, at a time when the universe was about 700 million years old.

Hidden giant: Even before the universe was a billion years old, a supermassive black hole apparently took up large amounts of matter. New measurements of the quasar J1440+0019 reveal a dust-red galaxy core in the midst of an extremely dust-rich home galaxy. The findings could help detect previously overlooked black holes from the cosmic early days. Suffering (Netherlands). Supermassive black holes [...] The article James-Webb shows dusty, rapidl…

Using the James Webb telescope and the ALMA radio telescope complex, researchers have discovered an unusual quasar J1440+0019. It appeared when the universe was less than a billion years old. At its center is a supermassive black hole with a mass of about 1.1 billion Suns, which is actively absorbing surrounding matter. The radiation from this object partially hides dust, making it more difficult to detect such quasars using conventional methods…

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onliner.by broke the news on Monday, October 26, 2026.
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