Miracle! James Webb Telescope discovers OLDEST black hole in the universe

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Black holes are extremely dense regions of space formed by the collapse of giant stars at the end of their life cycle. They are places in space where the pull of gravity is so strong that nothing can escape, not even light. According to NASA, black holes can be differentiated into two, depending on their mass. The first is a Stellar Black Hole which is formed from a single star. The other is a Supermassive Black Hole which forms due to merging of other black holes.

Although black holes have been captured before by several space and ground-based telescopes, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has just discovered a stunning image of the black hole, one which lets us peek back in time.

The supermassive black hole, discovered by JWST, has a mass 10 times that of our Sun, according to Space.com. What's astonishing is this is the oldest black hole that has ever been discovered in the universe, at the center of a galaxy just 570 million years after the universe began.

Rebecca Larson, astrophysicist at the University of Texas at Austin and the lead author of the study which aided in the discovery told LiveScience, "This is the first one that we're finding at this redshift (point in time after the Big Bang), but there should be many of them. We do expect that this black hole didn't just form (recently), so there should be more that are younger and existed earlier on in the universe."

To spot the black hole, the astronomers scanned the sky with two infrared cameras onboard the James Webb Space Telescope, namely MIRI and NIRCam. They used the cameras' built-in spectrographs to break down the light into its component frequencies.

The findings of the research were published on arXiv.

The James Webb Space Telescope captures various