Did you know that supermassive black holes, ten times larger than our sun, might be born in the universe’s earliest days? Imagine these cosmic giants forming when the universe was less than a billion years old. Researchers are diving deep into the universe’s history using the Hubble Space Telescope to uncover how these massive entities come into existence and evolve over time.
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Based on “Glimmers in the Cosmic Dawn. II. A variability census of supermassive black holes across the Universe” by Vieri Cammelli, Jonathan C. Tan, Alice R. Young, Matthew J. Hayes, Jasbir Singh, Richard S. Ellis, Aayush Saxena, Nicolas Laporte, Pierluigi Monaco, Benjamin W. Keller, available on arXiv (arxiv.org/abs/2501.17675), used under CC BY 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
