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Miracle! James Webb Telescope discovers OLDEST black hole in the universe
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Miracle! James Webb Telescope discovers OLDEST black hole in the universe

[ad_1] Black holes are extremely dense regions of space formed by the collapse of giant stars at the end of their life cycle. They are places in space where the pull of gravity is so strong that nothing can escape, not even light. According to NASA, black holes can be differentiated into two, depending on their mass. The first is a Stellar Black Hole which is formed from a single star. The other is a Supermassive Black Hole which forms due to merging of other black holes.Although black holes have been captured before by several space and ground-based telescopes, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has just discovered a stunning image of the black hole, one which lets us peek back in time. Oldest black hole everThe supermassive black hole, discovered by JWST, has a mass 10 times that o...