Supermassive Black Holes Can Form Directly, Without a Star
New JWST and Chandra data provide the clearest evidence that supermassive black holes can form directly from collapsing gas clouds, bypassing stellar collapse entirely. A paradigm shift.
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Weighing a Monster: Black Hole Mass Measured in Early Universe ‘Little Red Dot’
Astronomers directly measured the mass of a supermassive black hole in a high-redshift ‘little red dot’ galaxy, using ALMA to weigh a 300 million solar mass monster just 800 million years after the Big Bang.