Gargantua in the Mist: A Precocious Black Hole Behemoth at the Edge of Cosmic Dawn

Robin Dienel, courtesy of the Carnegie Institution for Science

Gargantua in the Mist: A Precocious Black Hole Behemoth at the Edge of Cosmic Dawn

Artist’s concepts of the most distant supermassive black hole known.the black hole resides in a mostly neutral universe, 690 million years after the Big Bang, at a time when the first galaxies were appearing.

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