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JWST Spots Giant Black Holes All Over the Early Universe

The Quanta Podcast

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Discovering Nitrogen Emissions and the Accretion Disk of a Black Hole in a Young Galaxy

Unusual nitrogen emissions in a young galaxy were found to be concentrated by powerful gravitational force, indicating the presence of a black hole's accretion disk. However, the birth mass of the black hole remains unknown.

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