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Sleeping Monster of the Early Universe Revealed by James Webb

Astronomers have discovered a massive dormant black hole from the early universe, just 800 million years after the Big Bang, using the James Webb Space Telescope.

This black hole, with a mass 400 million times that of our Sun, challenges existing models of black hole growth due to its size and low accretion rate.

Unprecedented black hole size and behavior.