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Monster black hole is starving its host galaxy to death, James Webb telescope reveals

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The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has spotted a gigantic black hole "starving" its host galaxy to death.

The supermassive black hole is 200 billion times the mass of the sun.

Previous observations revealed that the black hole's host galaxy is "dead" But previous telescopes lacked accuracy to find the exact cause of this.