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Early Universe
The early universe is the first few hundred million years after the Big Bang, when the first stars and galaxies lit up. James Webb sees this era directly: the most distant galaxies, the first black holes and reionization.
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Webb finds record-distance black hole in galaxy MoM-BL-z10
First stars may help seed supermassive black holes
How star clumps form in reionization-era galaxies
FOSSIL aims for thousandfold sharper cosmic background readings
Little Red Dots May Mark Black Hole Birth
11% of Dawn-Era Quasars Accrete Near the Eddington Limit
Most Distant Galaxy Proto-Supercluster Weighs 5,000 Milky Ways
The Universe's First Stars May Have Birthed Planets
Why early supermassive black holes grew in free fall
JWST reveals: two "quasars" are galaxies with supermassive stars
