The Universe’s First Black Holes
The Universe’s First Black Holes Might Not Have Been as Huge as We Thought For years, astronomers had a problem. The James Webb Space Telescope kept finding something that seemed almost impossible: enormous black holes living in a universe that was still basically a cosmic baby. Some appeared to be hundreds of millions or even billions of times more massive than the Sun, existing less than a billion years after the Big Bang. That created a serious question: How did the universe build giant black holes so quickly? Maybe black holes were born huge. Maybe they ate matter at ridiculous speeds. Maybe our understanding of their masses was wrong. And now, new research is suggesting something surprisingly simple: Some of these early black holes might not have been as massive as we originally thought. 🕳️ The “Too Big, Too Soon” Problem Black holes aren't born with billions of solar masses. At least, not in the most familiar scenario. A typical stellar black hole for...
