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This graphic shows detections of the most distant active supermassive black holes currently known in the universe. The most distant black hole is CEERS 1019, which existed just over 570 million years after the big bang. CEERS 746 was detected 1 billion years after the Big Bang. Third place currently goes to CEERS 2782, which existed 1.1 billion years after the Big Bang. (Image credit: Image: NASA, ESA, CSA, Leah Hustak (STScI). Science: Steve Finkelstein (UT Austin))