10/7/2026
In a First, Astronomers May Have Spotted a Galaxy in the Early Universe With Three Behemoth Black Holes
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The galaxy’s light took about 12.5 billion years to reach the James Webb Space Telescope, meaning the instrument saw the black holes a little more than one billion years after the Big Bang. Two of the black holes seemed on track to merge, illustrating how the objects grow
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