The James Webb Space Telescope, located at a distance of more than 1.5 million km from Earth, discovered the most distant supermassive black hole that “hosts” a galaxy that formed 570 million years after the Big Bang, that is, 13.2 billion years ago.

This galaxy is called CEERS 1019, and the special feature is that the black hole at its center is the least massive of all discovered in the early universe, it has nine million solar masses (it is nine million times heavier than the Sun).

Most black holes in the early universe have a mass of about a billion solar masses and are easier to detect because they are brighter because they “swallow” matter that ignites as it is pulled towards the black hole.

Although it is smaller, this black hole is special because it formed so long ago, and it is still difficult to explain how it could have formed so close to the beginning of the universe.

The discovered black hole has a lot in common with the hole at the center of the Milky Way, which has 4.6 million solar masses.

The telescope also discovered 11 galaxies that existed when the universe was in its infancy, between 470 and 675 million years after the Big Bang.

Black holes are huge, powerful, distant and mysterious. A black hole is an extreme environment, a cosmic object so dense that light cannot escape from its gravitational field.

The center of a black hole is called a singularity, and the gravitational field around it is so strong that any object that falls into the perimeter of the field disappears into the black hole.