Gas: Its whats for dinner.
The researcherspublishedtheir findings today inNature.
Its dormant state allowed us to learn about the mass of the host galaxy as well.
An artist’s impression of a black hole in the early universe.Illustration: Jiarong Gu
The early universe managed to produce some absolute monsters, even in relatively tiny galaxies.
Black holes are thought to form from collapsed stars, and their intense gravitational fields amass matter around them.
The matter swirling around the black hole glows, and is called an accretion disk.
In 2021, a team published a study on a starstuck in a doom loopwith a black hole.
In 2022, a different team saw a black holepuke up a staryears after eating it.
There are two fundamental differences between that snacking black hole and the one recently investigated in Webb data.
But another possibility is they go through periods of hyperactivity, followed by long periods of dormancy.
The idea is that black holes accrete material rapidly, and briefly exceed the predicted limit for their size.
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