NASA Discovers Oldest and Farthest Supermassive Black Hole in Cosmic Breakthrough

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NASA Discovers Oldest and Farthest Supermassive Black Hole in Cosmic Breakthrough
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NASA astronomers have discovered the most distant black hole ever observed in X-rays, located in galaxy UHZ1 over 13 billion light-years away. The findings challenge current theories about the formation of supermassive black holes in the early universe, suggesting that some of them may have formed directly from massive clouds of gas. The discovery was made using data from the Chandra X-ray Observatory and the James Webb Space Telescope.

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