A black hole of inexplicably high mass is puzzling astronomers: how could it have become so massive so quickly? The James Webb Space Telescope, peering back into the early history of the 13.8-billion-year-old universe, captured an image of a galaxy that existed just 770 million years after the Big Bang. Surprisingly, the black hole at its centre already weighed over a billion solar masses when the universe was still in its infancy. The James Webb observations were designed to take a closer look at the feeding mechanism, but they found nothing out of the ordinary. This discovery suggests that our understanding of galaxy formation is more limited than previously thought. And yet the measurements are by no means disappointing. Astronomers are continuing to trying to solve this cosmic mystery!
2 июл 2024