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Anyone care to translate into not-astronomer?

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I read it but I’m a dumb dumb. I think a radio telescope found a supermassive black hole and quasar source from a really big early forming galaxy?

Sooo… not aliens?

Inconclusive

One of these days man… S’gonna be ET.

Radio astronomer here! The paper is arguing that there is an incredibly supermassive black hole over a trillion times the mass of the sun that already existed ~1 billion years after the Big Bang. However it is not a direct measurement of the black hole because there is a lot of dust obscuring it, so it’s instead an inferred mass. Cheers

"But what does it all meeean Basil"-Austin Powers

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