The JWST Has Spotted Giant Black Holes All Over the Early Universe

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https://www.wired.com/story/the-jwst-has-spotted-giant-black-holes-all-over-the-early-universe/

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roguetrick@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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