"Unveiling the Ancient Secrets: Record-breaking Black Holes Shed Light on Cosmic Mysteries"

NASA's Chandra X-Ray Observatory and James Webb Space Telescope have discovered the oldest confirmed black hole, a supermassive black hole inside a galaxy that is over 13 billion years old. The discovery may help solve the mystery of the origin of supermassive black holes, as it suggests that at least for one galaxy, the black hole was supermassive from the beginning rather than growing gradually. The observations support the "heavy seed" theory, where a tremendous cloud of gas collapses to form the black hole at a supermassive scale. However, more data is needed to fully understand the formation of supermassive black holes and their prevalence in galaxies.