Supermassive black holes take time to form. That’s why scientists are puzzling over the discovery of one that existed a mere 570 million years after the Big Bang, only 100 to 300 years after the first stars began to form in the nascent universe.
NewsletterSupermassive black holes take time to form. That’s why scientists are puzzling over the discovery of one that existed a mere 570 million years after the Big Bang, only 100 to 300 years after the first stars began to form in theObservations from the James Webb Space Telescope have indicated that the black hole – at the center of an early galaxy, CEERS 1019 – was busy some 13 billion years ago, sucking down gas and growing larger.
The earliest-ever supermassive black hole weighed in at about 9 million solar masses, about twice the size of the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way – but still considered small. Astronomers have discovered others from the early universe that weighed more than a billion times the mass of the sun.
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