Dark Matter Could Have Driven the Growth of Early Supermassive Black Holes

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) keeps finding supermassive black holes (SMBH) in the early Universe. They’re in active galactic nuclei seen only 500,000 years after the Big Bang. This was long before astronomers thought they could exist. What’s going on? Monster black holes like the ones at the hearts of galaxies take a really …