'Baby quasars' spotted by James Webb telescope could transform our understanding of monster black holes

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A cluster of faint, red dots lurking in the farthest reaches of the universe could change our understanding of how supermassive black holes form.

While these mysterious spots had been previously recorded by the Hubble Space Telescope, it wasn't until scientists viewed them using the far more powerful JWST that they could finally distinguish them from normal galaxies, according to a statement. Astronomers using JWST have already uncovered many of these problematic black holes and struggle to explain them with current theories of cosmology.

 

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