Posted on 12/29/2023 6:16:54 PM PST by logi_cal869
A bizarre galaxy spotted in the early days of the universe could rewrite how supermassive black holes are formed.
Scientists have long wondered how supermassive black holes — the enormous, mysterious phenomena at the center of galaxies including our Milky Way — came into existence.
A new observation of Galaxy UHZ-1, collected by NASA using its powerful new James Webb Space Telescope and the Chandra X-ray Observatory, suggests an unusual origin.
Per the agency, it could show that the supermassive black hole there was born directly from clouds of primordial gas.
If confirmed, it would show, for the first time, that supermassive black holes are not always formed by dying stars.
Such a discovery "changes the game in understanding how these objects formed," said study lead author Priyamvada Natarajan while speaking to Science Friday, a non-profit science-education organization.
"It is simply too big too early. It's like looking in at a kindergarten classroom and there among all the 5-year-olds is one that is 150 pounds and/or six feet tall," Daniel Holz, a theorist at the University of Chicago who studies black holes, told The New York Times.
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Exactly, FRiend.
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