Giant black holes were supposed to be bit players in the early cosmic story. But James Webb Space Telescope observations are finding an unexpected abundance of the beasts.
  • roguetrick@kbin.social
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    11 months ago

    This scenario is hard to stomach too, because such large, lumpy gas clouds should fracture into stars before forming a black hole.

    Seems to make sense that in the denser early universe that pressure wasn’t quite enough to overcome just how much mass these early clouds had hanging around so close.