Scientists Discover Ancient , Supermassive Black Hole , Near Center of the Universe.<br />'Newsweek' reports that the James Webb Telescope <br />has now captured images of the most distant <br />active supermassive black hole ever observed.<br />The gargantuan black hole <br />was found at the center of <br />a galaxy known as CEERS 1019.<br />The distant galaxy existed <br />570 million years after our universe <br />was created via the big bang.<br />How the black hole came into existence <br />so soon after the universe was born <br />remains a mystery, 'Newsweek' reports.<br />According to findings published in <br />'The Astrophysical Journal Letters,' the black hole <br />is approximately 9 million solar masses.<br />Despite being "supermassive," this <br />black hole is far smaller than other black holes <br />discovered near the origin of the universe.<br />Typically, the most ancient black holes <br />have been found to have a mass about <br />1 billion times greater than our sun.<br />According to a team from the University of Texas <br />at Austin, the black hole at the center of CEERS 1019 <br />is just 4.6 million times the mass of the sun. .<br />It is similar in size to the black hole <br />that lies at the center of our <br />own Milky Way Galaxy.<br />We're not used to seeing so much <br />structure in images at these distances, Jeyhan Kartaltepe, associate professor of astronomy at the <br />Rochester Institute of Technology in New York, via 'Newsweek'.<br />A galaxy merger could be partly <br />responsible for fueling the activity in <br />this galaxy's black hole, and that could <br />also lead to increased star formation, Jeyhan Kartaltepe, associate professor of astronomy at the Rochester Institute of Technology in New York, via 'Newsweek'.<br />A galaxy merger could be partly <br />responsible for fueling the activity in <br />this galaxy's black hole, and that could <br />also lead to increased star formation, Jeyhan Kartaltepe, associate professor of astronomy at the Rochester Institute of Technology in New York, via 'Newsweek'
