A cosmic monster emerged far sooner than expected.

The James Webb Space Telescope has uncovered something extraordinary, an object from just 500 million years after the Big Bang containing a black hole tens of millions of times heavier than our Sun. This entity, tucked inside a faint, compact galaxy, is now the earliest confirmed black hole ever observed. Its sheer size and early appearance defy conventional wisdom, upending theories of cosmic evolution. If black holes weren’t supposed to exist this early, then something fundamental in our models of the universe has been missing all along. Scientists now find themselves staring at a discovery that rewrites the timeline of creation.



