Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers may have discovered the first evidence of dinosaur-like monster stars that existed shortly after the Big Bang. These prehistoric stellar titans are theorized to have had masses as great as 10,000 times that of the sun.
Like the dinosaurs, these monster stars aren't around anymore, but like Earth's geology is populated by fossils of dinosaurs, the universe is filled with the "cosmic fossils" left behind by these earliest stars: black holes. In fact, confirming these stars existed at such tremendous masses in the early universe could help explain how supermassive black holes grew to masses equivalent to that of millions of suns before the cosmos was even 1 billion years old.
