A merger of two supermassive black holes detected in the early universe
An article published in the journal “Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society” reports evidence of the ongoing merger of two supermassive black holes in a pair of galaxies cataloged as ZS7 in the early universe. A team of researchers used observations conducted with the James Webb Space Telescope to obtain images of this event which we see as it was taking place when the universe was about 740 million years old and was therefore very young in astronomical terms. This is the most distant pair of merging black holes discovered so far and could offer insights valuable to understand how these extreme objects grew so quickly.
