JWST Spots Giant Black Holes All Over the Early Universe
JWST Spots Giant Black Holes All Over the Early Universe
Giant black holes were supposed to be bit players in the early cosmic story. But recent James Webb Space Telescope observations are finding an unexpected abundance of the beasts.
Giant black holes were supposed to be bit players in the early cosmic story. But recent James Webb Space Telescope observations are finding an unexpected abundance of the beasts.
There's one right behind us, isn't there?
There's a mod joke in there somewhere.
something something landed gentry
The sky...it's fulla holes.
Yep, we're all gonna die when that thing gobbles us... In a few millions of years.
The things we see are from a millions years ago, who knows where or how big these are right now, might not even exist any more.
*Billions (13,000+ million). Based on our current understanding and their close proximity to each other in the early universe, most of them would have likely merged and many/most may be now at a size where it would take a google years to evaporate. The extremely small ones that did not merge may have already evaporated.
Source: Hawking radiation