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  • A bizarre galaxy NASA spotted at the edge of the universe could upend what we know about supermassive black holes

    12/29/2023 6:16:54 PM PST · by logi_cal869 · 21 replies
    Business Insider ^ | 12/27/2023 | Marianne Guenot
    A bizarre galaxy spotted in the early days of the universe could rewrite how supermassive black holes are formed. Scientists have long wondered how supermassive black holes — the enormous, mysterious phenomena at the center of galaxies including our Milky Way — came into existence. A new observation of Galaxy UHZ-1, collected by NASA using its powerful new James Webb Space Telescope and the Chandra X-ray Observatory, suggests an unusual origin. Per the agency, it could show that the supermassive black hole there was born directly from clouds of primordial gas. If confirmed, it would show, for the first time,...