CEERS 1019 (IMAGE)

University of Texas at Austin

CEERS 1019

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A team of researchers led by Steven Finkelstein and Rebecca Larson from The University of Texas at Austin have identified the most distant active supermassive black hole to date in the James Webb Space Telescope’s Cosmic Evolution Early Release Science (CEERS) Survey. The black hole, within galaxy CEERS 1019, existed just over 570 million years after the big bang and is far less massive than other black holes previously found in the early universe.

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Illustration credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, Leah Hustak (STScI)

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