Another First for the JWST: It Detects Three Supermassive Black Holes in the Same Galaxy

This AI-generated image shows the three black holes (not to scale) found in a galaxy only about 1.2 billion years after the Big Bang. It's evidence that mergers played an important role in galaxy growth billions of years ago. Image Credit: MPE (generated with AI)

Astronomers working with the JWST have found a galaxy only 1.3 billion years after the Big Bang that contains three black holes. Two are close to the galaxy’s center and will merge soon. The third is more distant, and is expected to merge much later. The discovery shows that black hole mergers were an important contributor to the masses of the SMBH we find in galaxies today.

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