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Growing Black Hole Seen Only 470 Million Years After the Big Bang

One of the big questions in cosmology asks when black holes first showed up in the early Universe. Recently astronomers discovered the most ...

These are the first massive black holes from the early universe | CNN

More than 13 billion years after they formed, distant massive black holes from the early universe are revealing themselves.

Supermassive black holes: monsters in the early Universe | OUPblog

The first-formed extremely massive star clusters were full of heavy stars, leaving many millions of normal black holes in regions spanning not ...

Giant black hole is one of the earliest ever seen - Nature

Data from the James Webb and Chandra space telescopes reveal a massive object in a galaxy that formed less than half a billion years after the Big Bang.

Scientists may finally know where the biggest, oldest black holes in ...

The physics of the early universe within the first few seconds of the Big Bang are so intense that the cosmos may have directly produced ...

What was it like when supermassive black holes arose? - Big Think

Just 50-to-100 million years after the Big Bang, the very first stars of all began to form. Massive gas clouds started to collapse, but because ...

James Webb Telescope detects earliest known black hole - NPR

Here's scenario one — rather than starting out small, perhaps supermassive black holes in the early universe were simply born big due to the ...

Scientists discover oldest ever black hole and say it could explain ...

It was formed 470 million years after the Big Bang and was detected in X-rays, using NASA telescopes. There is "strong evidence" it was born ...

The Intermittent Growth of the First Supermassive Black Holes

Looking at the entire population of black hole progenitors, our model predicts a very low fraction of those are active. We estimate that 13 ...

When galaxies collide: How the first super-massive black holes were ...

These new computer simulations show that the first-ever super-massive black holes were likely born when those early galaxies collided and merged ...

Where Do Supermassive Black Holes Come From? - WIRED

In cosmic terms, that's practically the blink of an eye—not nearly long enough for a star to be born, collapse into a black hole, and eat enough ...

Astronomers detect oldest black hole ever observed

Researchers have discovered the oldest black hole ever observed, dating from the dawn of the universe, and found that it is 'eating' its host galaxy to death.

Growing Supermassive Black Hole Detected in Early Universe

... black holes were in place less than 700 million years after the Big Bang ... UNCOVER: The Growth of the First Massive Black Holes from ...

Record-breaking black hole found in the early universe - EarthSky

We think that this is the first detection of an Outsize Black Hole and the best evidence yet obtained that some black holes form from massive ...

Born in the big bang: How ancient black holes could save cosmology

Millions of years passed, some of the radiation that filled the cosmos giving way to matter, which eventually clumped together to form the first ...

Did black holes exist before galaxies formed in the universe?

A few hundred million years after the big bang, gas clouds collapsed because of supermassive black hole magnetic storms, and new stars were born ...

Which came first: Black holes or galaxies? - ScienceDaily

A few hundred million years after the big bang, gas clouds collapsed because of supermassive black hole magnetic storms, and new stars were born ...

What are primordial black holes? | Astronomy.com

As their name suggests, primordial black holes were born very early in the life of the universe, a mere fraction of a second after the Big Bang.

Rare black hole 1 billion times the mass of the sun could upend our ...

The discovery of a hidden primordial black hole, which formed just 750 million years after the Big Bang, suggests that it may be the 'tip of ...

Did A Black Hole Give Birth To Our Universe? - Forbes

The first was cosmic inflation: instead of arising from a singularity, it now appears that the Universe was set up by a rapid, relentless state ...