Webb Telescope Measures Distant Dormant Supermassive Black Hole

Astronomers have utilized the James Webb Space Telescope and gravitational lensing to directly measure the mass of a dormant supermassive black hole. This black hole, located over 10 billion light-years away in galaxy MRG-M0138, is estimated to be six billion solar masses. This unprecedented measurement offers new insights into the co-evolution of black holes and galaxies in the early universe.