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James Webb Space Telescope weighs 'sleeping giant' black hole from 10 billion light-years away — and it's 6 billion times our sun's mass
The James Webb Space Telescope measured a black hole's mass at 6 billion times the sun's from 10 billion light-years away. The black hole is described as a 'sleeping giant.'
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