The advent of JWST has revolutionized our understanding of the earliest universe. Its keen infrared eye has pushed the boundaries of how far we can see into the universe, and due to the finiteness of the speed of light, that means how far we can look into the past. We are now studying the earliest hundreds of millions of years after the Big Bang , and researchers have confirmed the most distant known black hole in the universe.

The cosmic object sits at the core of galaxy CAPERS-LRD-z9 and was already there 500 million years after the Big Bang – that’s just 3 percent of the universe's current age. The team used JWST's spectroscopic capabilities to find the undeniable presence of a black hole. While hints of earlier black holes have been observed, this is the earliest and so the most d

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