The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has detected the most distant active supermassive black hole to date.
The galaxy that hosts the ancient black hole, CEERS 1019, formed fairly early in the universe's history, just 570 million years after the Big Bang. The active supermassive black hole at the center of CEERS 1019 is unusual not only for its age and distance, but also in that it weighs in at just 9 million solar masses, meaning it's 9 million times heftier than the sun. Typically, most supermassive black holes in the early universe weigh in at over 1 billion solar masses, making them brighter and easier to detect.
