Starlight and the first black holes: Researchers detect the host galaxies of quasars in the early universe

New images from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have revealed, for the first time, starlight from two massive galaxies hosting actively growing black holes—quasars—seen less than a billion years after the Big Bang. A new study in Nature finds the black holes have masses close to a billion times that of the sun, and the host galaxy masses are almost one hundred times larger, a ratio similar to what is found in the more recent universe. A powerful combination of the Subaru Telescope and the JWST has paved a new path to study the distant universe.


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Source: Phys.org