The James Webb Space Telescope has just captured the first direct measurement of a black hole 50 million times the mass of the Sun, sitting in an ancient galaxy where it outweighs every star around it — suggesting it may have formed first

According to the official ESA Webb announcement on 27 May 2026, two papers published the same day, one in Nature and a companion in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, report the first direct mass measurement of a supermassive black hole in the first billion years after the Big Bang. The object sits at […]