Overview

• The research team secured director’s discretionary time on the James Webb Space Telescope to gather deeper observations of the Infinity Galaxy.
• Initial JWST data reveal a rare triple black hole system with two active nuclei and a million-solar-mass black hole between them.
• Ionized hydrogen, Chandra X-ray and VLA radio observations confirm that the central black hole is accreting material vigorously.
• Velocity measurements and the lack of analogous dwarf galaxies make runaway or foreground black hole explanations unlikely.
• These findings provide observational support for the heavy-seed model by capturing direct-collapse conditions during a galaxy merger.