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Astronomers finally find elusive, dust-shrouded supermassive black holes at ‘Cosmic Dawn’

Astronomers finally find elusive, dust-shrouded supermassive black holes at ‘Cosmic Dawn’

Using a powerful combination of the Subaru Telescope and the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have discovered seven supermassive black hole-powered quasars surrounded by veils of dust that existed when the universe was less than a billion years old. Supermassive black holes consuming vast amounts of matter and shining as bright quasars while being hidden in thick clouds of …

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