NASA has detected a massive black hole, estimated to be 800 million times the mass of our Sun, just 800 million years after the Big Bang. This discovery, made using data from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), challenges current understanding of black hole formation and growth.
The black hole's immense size and early appearance in the universe's history have surprised scientists. It is significantly larger than expected for such an early epoch, suggesting rapid growth in the early universe.
This finding has implications for our understanding of the evolution of galaxies and the role of supermassive black holes in their formation. It also raises questions about the processes that allowed such a massive black hole to form so quickly after the Big Bang.