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ESA/Hubble/Webb weic2413: Webb detects most distant black hole merger to date. An international team of astronomers have used the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope to find evidence for an ongoing merger of two galaxies and their massive black holes when the Universe was only 740 million years old. This marks the …
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16 May 2024

An international team of astronomers have used the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope to find evidence for an ongoing merger of two galaxies and their massive black holes when the Universe was only 740 million years old. This marks the most distant detection of a black hole merger ever obtained and the first time that this phenomenon has been detected so early in the Universe.

The release, images and videos are available on:
https://esawebb.org/news/weic2413/

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ESA/Hubble/Webb Information Centre
16 May 2024

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