Another article, https://phys.org/news/2023-02-discovery ... holes.html , notes …A supermassive black hole found lurking at the edge of the universe is one of the biggest ever detected, according to scientists. The galaxy, nicknamed COS-87259, shines bright from the intense burst of star formation.
The cosmic colossus lies at the centre of an extreme galaxy and is said to date back more than 13 billion years which is only 750 million years after the Big Bang.
The black hole reportedly contains over a billion solar masses worth of interstellar dust - forming stars 1,000 times faster than our own Milky Way.
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Additionally, the black hole has an active galactic nucleus which is generating a strong jet of material moving close to the speed of light.
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Dr Endsley also said: "While nobody expected to find this kind of object in the very early Universe, its discovery takes a step towards building a much better understanding of how billion solar mass black holes were able to form so early on in the lifetime of the Universe, as well how the most massive galaxies first evolved."
Well it sure is important that we know about this!What is particularly astonishing about this new object is that it was identified over a relatively small patch of the sky typically used to detect similar objects—less than 10 times the size of the full moon—suggesting there could be thousands of similar sources in the very early universe. This was completely unexpected from previous data.
The only other class of supermassive black holes we knew about in the very early universe are quasars, which are active black holes that are relatively unobscured by cosmic dust. These quasars are extremely rare at distances similar to COS-87259, with only a few tens located over the full sky. The surprising discovery of COS-87259 and its black hole raises several questions about the abundance of very early supermassive black holes, as well as the types of galaxies in which they typically form.
Now we have what we need to fix all the problems our tiny world now faces.
Or at least distract voters from what’s happening.