The newly-discovered supermassive black hole existed only 570 million years after the Big Bang.
The new data came from Webb's Cosmic Evolution Early Release Science Survey, led by Steven Finkelstein, a professor of astronomy at The University of Texas at Austin. The survey uses a combination of Webb's near- and mid-infrared images and spectra data.
Early supermassive black holes have weighed far more, typically having more than one billion times the mass of our Sun. Using the JWST data, the scientists were able to determine how much gas the black hole is ingesting and the rate at which the galaxy is forming new stars. They discovered that the black hole is ingesting gas at the highest limit it can while still allowing the universe to produce new leads.
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