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'Webb has shown us they are clearly wrong': How astrophysicist Sophie Koudami's research on supermassive black holes is rewriting the history of our universe

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Supermassive black holes are gigantic ruptures in space-time that sit in the middle of many galaxies.

They periodically suck in matter before spitting it out at near light speeds to shape how galaxies evolve.

The James Webb Space Telescope has found that the cosmic monsters are shockingly abundant and massive in the few million years after the Big Bang .

JWST is telling us that black hole activity happened at very early times and in more galaxies than was thought possible.

It almost suggests, because of how massive these black holes are, that black holes assembled faster than their host galaxies.

The exciting thing about this question is that nothing is ruled out.

Scientists are revising their models of how black holes grew in the early universe to see if there are still other options for other models.

The exciting thing is that none of the models are ruled out, says SK .

He's excited about the gravitational wave detector LISA that will come online in the 2030s .