Black From just 690 Million Years after the Big Bang (IMAGE)

Carnegie Institution for Science

Black From just 690 Million Years after the Big Bang

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Artist's conception of the most-distant supermassive black hole ever discovered, which is part of a quasar from just 690 million years after the Big Bang.

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By Robin Dienel, courtesy of the Carnegie Institution for Science.

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