A giant supermassive black hole (SMBH) that consumes the mass of the Sun a day has been found to be about one-fifteenth of its initially estimated size, which makes its rate of feeding even more inexplicable. As excited as astronomers are about solving one puzzle and having another made clearer, they’re even more enthused about the potential of the technology that made this finding possible. The rest of this article is behind a paywall. Please sign in or subscribe to access the full content.

The JWST keeps turning up objects in the distant universe we can’t explain, and one of the oddest is J0529-4351. This is a quasar , an immensely bright accretion disk powered by a supermassive black hole (SMBH). When discovered last year, astronomers described it as the “ Brightest object in the k

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