Astronomers using the Webb Space Telescope spot the most distant black hole yet, but that record isn't expected to last too long.
. That’s 100 million years closer to the beginning of the cosmos than a black hole identified in 2021 by a Chinese team using a telescope in Chile.
Because the signals from this particular black hole are weak, more observations are needed, according to the Texas-led team.
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