Scientists Discover Rare One in a Billion Black Hole Star

Astronomers Uncover Hybrid Black Hole Star That Rewrites Early Universe Story

Astronomers have identified an object that defies every familiar category in the cosmos. Part black hole. Part star. The discovery, announced this week, comes from observations made with NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. It challenges assumptions about how the first supermassive black holes formed so quickly after the Big Bang. The object goes by the name MoM-BH*-1. Researchers spotted it during a survey called Mirage or Miracle. That survey hu…

Scientists discover rare one in a billion black hole star

There is a literal fault in our stars. Astronomers may have stumbled onto a bizarre cosmic object that appears to be part black hole, part star, and is so ridiculously energetic that it outshines its entire galaxy. The object, called MoM-BH*-1, was discovered accidentally by the James Webb Space Telescope while astronomers were hunting for some of the oldest and most distant galaxies in the universe. Instead, they found a cosmic chimera. Meet th…

Astronomers Discover an Entirely New Type of Object: a "Black Hole Star"

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have discovered a new type of cosmic monstrosity: a “black hole star.” The glowing red object, dubbed MoM-BH*-1, is 100,000 times more massive than our Sun and is trapped in a shell of gas so thick that it looks like a star the size of the entire solar system. But unlike an actual star, it’s not fusion powering its center, but a black hole constantly devouring matter. As detailed in a new study ab…