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The oldest ever black hole has been found – and is so massive it's baffling scientists. It's also eating its own galaxy to death.

Paris (ESA) Aug 30, 2023 - The graceful winding arms of the grand-design spiral galaxy M51 stretch across this image from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope. Unlike the menagerie of weird and wonderful spiral galaxie

NASAs Webb telescope has detected the oldest supermassive black hole yet, which sits in a galaxy that formed just 570 million years after the Big Bang that occurred 13.8 million years ago.

After 30 years of development, NASA's $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope stands to take transformational images of the universe.