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James Webb telescope just spotted the oldest, closest pair of black holes in the early universe


The dual black hole system, dubbed LID-1166, is the first close-separation pair of its kind confirmed this early in the universe. The discovery could help to explain how the earliest black holes grew so large, so fast.

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