Supermassive Black Holes 'Too Big' for the Early Universe May Not Be so Massive After All

Supermassive black holes 'too big' for the early universe may not be so massive after all

In the four years that the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has been making observations of the early universe, it has been delivering one scientific milestone after another. However, the $10 billion telescope has also left astronomers with a massive problem  — literally.The JWST has been routinely spotting supermassive black holes in the early universe that, at hundreds of millions of times the mass of the sun, are too big to have grown to suc…

James Webb Black Hole Discovery: Secrets of Cosmic Giants

The James Webb black hole discovery reveals primordial 'black hole stars' from 660M years after the Big Bang, solving the supermassive black hole puzzle. The post James Webb Black Hole Discovery: Secrets of Cosmic Giants appeared first on Bramptonist.