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Robert Lea

A black hole 'feeding frenzy' could help explain a cosmic mystery uncovered by the James Webb Space Telescope

An illustration of black hole seeds greedily feasting on gas and dust in the early universe.

Scientists may have solved a cosmic mystery that has been troubling them since the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) began observations back in 2022.

When astronomers started looking back into the early days of the universe with the cutting-edge observatory, they discovered supermassive black holes that appear to have formed prior to the universe being 1 billion years old, something our current models of the cosmos can't explain But a new study has found that a black hole "feeding frenzy" may explain how these cosmic monsters were born so early in the universe's history.

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