Most distant active supermassive black hole discovered by Webb telescope

The James Webb Space Telescope has aided researchers in their discovery of the most remote active supermassive black hole.

Supermassive black holes are dreadful cosmic objects that use their gravitational pull to hold whole galaxies together while engulfing and destroying anything that approaches too closely. Therefore, it could be advantageous that the one discovered by the James Webb Telescope is the most distant one discovered thus far.

Supermassive black holes are fearsome cosmic objects that hold entire galaxies together with their strength, drawing in and destroying everything that approaches too closely. So perhaps it is fortunate that the one discovered by the James Webb Telescope is the furthest one discovered thus far.

Although CEERS 1019 is quite ancient, that is not what makes it special. In galactic terms, it is quite light. It is considerably smaller than other black holes that were also present in the early universe and discovered by telescopes, weighing only at about 9 million solar masses.