Scientists cannot explain how a giant supermassive black hole with the mass of one billion of our suns existed so soon after the birth of the universe.
The mysteries of a very ancient and massive black hole are being unraveled using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope .This supermassive black hole, found in the center of a galaxy named J1120+0641, was already one billion times as massive as our sun when the universe was only 770 million years old, according to anew paper in the journal Nature Astronomy.
'J1120+0641's accretion structures must have assembled very quickly, as they appear fully 'mature' less than 760 Myr after the Big Bang,' the researchers wrote in the paper.
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