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James Webb Space Telescope spots a supermassive black hole in the early universe, much sooner after the Big Bang than scientists can explain (www.businessinsider.com)
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NASA's Webb telescope spotted an active supermassive black hole that existed 570 million years after the Big Bang. That's really early.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

But you are also looking at a universe that was much more compact then, with galaxies and structures bunched much closer together than now. It may be a narrow field of vision compared to the current size of the universe, but that narrow field of vision has also expanded in the subsequent 13+ billion years.