NASA's James Webb Space Telescope broke its own record to discover the oldest black hole yet, but it has astronomers even more confused about the beginning of the universe

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black hole event horizon shadow accretion disk spiraling illustration eso1644b
An artist's impression of a rapidly spinning supermassive black hole surrounded by a disc of super-heated material.

ESO, ESA/Hubble, M. Kornmesser

NASA's James Webb and X-ray telescopes combine powers to discover the most distant black hole ever in a rare state of infancy

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image of galaxy of stars with cross-section zoomed in on black hole speck
X-ray image of the msot distant black hole ever discovered.

X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO/Ákos Bogdán; Infrared: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI; Image Processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/L. Frattare & K. Arcand

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