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James Webb Space Telescope detects farthest and oldest black hole collision ever seen (video)

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have found the most distant merger between supermassive black holes ever detected. Colliding black holes are at the heart of merging galaxies so distant that the collision appears to have occurred just 740 million years after the Big Bang, when the 13.8 billion-year-old universe was a fraction… Read More »

Scientists use XRISM spacecraft to predict fate of matter around monster supermassive black hole

Black hole week is in full swing at this point, and to celebrate, NASA has released stunning observations of the heart of a distant spiral galaxy, as well as the monster supermassive black hole that lives within that heart. The observations were carried out by the X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission (XRISM), led by the… Read More »