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    Massive Black Hole Reveals When The First Stars Blinked On

    Scientists have detected a black hole thought to be about 800 million times as massive as our sun that is helping to reveal when the universe filled with starlight.
    by Nell Greenfieldboyce Dec 06, 2017 1 minute
    An artist's conception of the most-distant supermassive black hole ever discovered, which is part of a quasar from just 690 million years after the Big Bang.

    Scientists have just discovered a supermassive black hole that existed surprisingly early in the history of the universe, and the puzzling find is shedding new light on when the first stars blinked on.

    Astronomers spotted the

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