"An Outsider in Our Universe" James Webb Telescope Finds a Massive Black Hole as old as the Universe. Two NASA space telescopes teamed up to scrutinise a distant galaxy and discovered something mind-boggling: a gargantuan black hole inside a galaxy that’s more than 13 billion years old.

The supermassive is the oldest black hole yet confirmed, and has roughly the same mass as all the stars in that galaxy combined.

In a galaxy called UHZ1, astronomers have spotted the telltale signature of a growing black hole a mere 470 million years following the Big Bang.

The new report can’t fully resolve the issue, but it makes a strong case that at least for UHZ1, the supermassive black hole didn’t grow gradually, but rather was supermassive from the get-go.

The report leveraged data from both the Chandra X-Ray Observatory and the James Webb Space Telescope.

This is cosmic archaeology, using ancient light in the X-ray and infrared portions of the spectrum. The light from UHZ 1 was emitted 13.2 billion years ago, about 400 million years after the big bang.

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