James Webb Space Telescope Discovers Three Actively Feeding Black Holes in a Distant Galaxy

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Published: 2026-10-25
Category: science
Source: ScienceDaily

Astronomers, utilizing the James Webb Space Telescope, have identified three actively feeding supermassive black holes within a single galaxy, J0148-4214, located over 12.5 billion light-years away. This finding offers a rare glimpse into the early universe and how massive black holes grew and interacted, with two of the black holes separated by only 620 light-years and expected to merge.

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