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‘It’s a dream’: JWST spies more black holes than astronomers predicted

The James Webb Space Telescope’s observations could help to answer questions about how the celestial objects formed early in the Universe.
  1. Alexandra Witze
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Last August, astrophysicist Dale Kocevski posted a paper to the arXiv preprint server with some preliminary data on what the new James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) was discovering about black holes in one of its surveys of the Universe. The article, now formally reviewed and published1, did not predict that JWST would bring revolutionary insight into the enigmatic celestial objects. “And that was proven completely wrong,” says Kocevski, who is based at Colby College in Waterville, Maine.

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doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-023-02460-5

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