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The powerful James Webb Telescope used a galaxy cluster called Abell 2744 as a foreground lensing body to amplify light from background galaxies which are otherwise too distant to see.
This revealed the extremely red quasi-stellar object they zeroed-in on, originally in the form of three red dots. In other words, it’s just one dot, that we see as three due to gravitational lensing.
The extremely high redshifted object is seen as it was around 700 million years after the Big Bang. The cloak of thick gas and dust shrouding the black hole indicates its high redshift. But what really caught the astronomy team’s attention is the black hole’s mass. At around 40 million times the mass of the sun, it is unexpectedly massive in comparison to the galaxy in which it resides.
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