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Light from a distant galaxy has travelled for more than 12.5 billion years to reach Earth, allowing astronomers to see the universe when it was only about 1.2 billion years old. At that remarkable stage in cosmic history, the galaxy was already home to 'three actively feeding supermassive black holes.' An international team led by researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics identified the three objects using observations from the James Webb Space Telescope.

Astronomers have found what is currently the fastest known star in the Milky Way, a faint star racing through the extreme environment around Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the centre of our galaxy. Called S301, the star reaches a staggering speed of about 15,500 miles per second, or 25,000 kilometres per second, which is more than 8% of the speed of light.