A montage of the MeerKat radio telescope’s First Light image with four zoomed-in insets – the two panels to the right show distant galaxies with massive black holes at their centres; at lower left is a galaxy approximately 200m light years away where hydrogen gas is being used up to form stars in large numbers.

Credit: MeerKat/SKA South Africa

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