JWST and ALMA reveal a dusty, rapidly growing black hole in the early universe

October 26, 2026 · 1:20 pm 1 sources

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• JWST and ALMA reveal a dusty, rapidly growing black hole in the early universe
  Phys.org · October 26, 2026 13:20
  A new study reveals a dust-reddened quasar from a time when the universe was less than a billion years old. Located at a redshift of 6.5488, the object J1440+0019 contains a rapidly accreting supermassive black hole with a mass of about 1.1 billion suns. The paper was posted to the arXiv preprint…