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JWST 'weighs' dormant black hole 10 billion light-years away
- June 4, 2026 at 6:00 PM
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The most distant, nearly invisible dormant black hole has been detected and "weighed" by an international team of astronomers that includes researchers from UCL. The study, published in Science, identified a dormant black hole at the heart of a galaxy known as MRG-M0138 located over 10 billion light years away. It is the most distant dormant black hole yet detected, 15 times farther away than the previous record.
Originally published at Phys.org