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NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has made one of its "most unexpected" discoveries to date: tiny red dots in some of the most distant corners of the universe, which turned out to be supermassive black holes. After studying observations by the groundbreaking observatory, the team concluded that "faint little red dots very far away in […]

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Astronomers used the James Webb Space Telescope to capture an image of an extremely bright quasar. A quasar is a black hole releasing intense radiation as it feeds on bounties of cosmic matter.

Baltimore MD (SPX) Jun 12, 2023 - In the early universe, the gas between stars and galaxies was opaque - energetic starlight could not penetrate it. But 1 billion years after the big bang, the gas had become completely transparent.

The rest of the universe would be hidden from us if it weren't for this transparency, and now Webb has revealed how it happened!