NASA James Webb Space Telescope captures supermassive black hole; Know what experts said

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NASA-run James Webb Space Telescope discovered an extremely red supermassive black hole located in the distant and young universe going back in time.

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The supermassive black hole was found to be approximately 700 million years old and it is expanding in the universe.

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According to scientists, the black hole is 40 million times the mass of the sun which is surprisingly bigger than some other galaxies.

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The supermassive black hole is located 12.9 billion light-years away from Earth. NASA says that it is covered with reddish gas and dust. 

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The study was led by Lukas Furtak and Adi Zitrin of the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev who discovered the quasar-like object first.

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According to Rachel Bezanson, the co-lead of the UNCOVER programme, “Analysis of the object's colours indicated that it was not a typical star-forming galaxy. This further supported the supermassive blackhole hypothesis.”

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The report highlighted that the black hole is emitting huge amounts of radiation which helped the JWST to detect the object. 

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Scientists also discovered more such supermassive black holes that show similar behaviour. 

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This discovery has created a mystery about how such supermassive black holes grew during the early years of the universe.