Using the joint NASA/European Space Agency/Canadian Space Agency James Webb Space Telescope, a group of astronomers has discovered a supermassive black hole within the distant galaxy CANUCS-LRD-z8.6. The galaxy is among the farthest ever observed, with Webb imaging it as it was just 570 million years after the Big Bang.
CANUCS-LRD-z8.6 is a part of a unique class of galaxies that are extremely distant, small, and faint. The black hole discovered by Webb is actively growing and challenges current theories about the formation of galaxies, black holes, and other extreme cosmic objects in the very early universe.