Measuring the black hole at the center of at the center of MRG-M0138 (IMAGE)

Carnegie Institution for Science

Measuring the black hole at the center of at the center of MRG-M0138

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JWST and gravitational lensing enabled an international team of astronomers led by Carnegie Science's Andrew Newman to measure the mass of a dormant black hole from the early universe for the first time.

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Credit: Navid Marvi/Carnegie Science

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