James Webb rewrites the laws of black hole formation

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has uncovered groundbreaking evidence of a primordial supermassive black hole that challenges foundational astronomical models. Located 13 billion light-years away, this cosmic titan existed a mere 700 million years after the Big Bang.

James Webb rewrites the laws of black hole formation. The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has uncovered groundbreaking evidence of a primordial supermassive black hole that challenges foundational astronomical models. Located 13 billion light-years away, this cosmic titan existed a mere 700 million years after the Big Bang. Traditionally, astrophysicists believed it required at least a billion years of stellar evolution and cosmic feeding for a black hole to reach such a scale. However, this newly observed anomaly suggests that some of the universe’s earliest black holes may have been enormous from inception, bypassing the conventional stellar collapse phase entirely. For decades, the standard scientific consensus dictated that black holes form when massive stars collapse, gradually expanding by pulling in surrounding interstellar mater...