Wednesday, September 24, 2025

This Rapidly-Growing Black Hole Could Explain The JWST's Puzzling Findings

This artist's illustration shows the rapidly growing black hole. It has about one billion solar masses, yet we're seeing it as it was less than one billion years after the Big Bang. By observing it, astrophysicists are hoping to understand how black holes became so massive in so little time. Image Credit: Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/INAF-Brera/L. Ighina et al.; Illustration: NASA/CXC/SAO/M. Weiss; Image Processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/N. Wolk

NASA's Chandra X-ray space telescope has found a black hole that's growing at an extremely rapid pace. The telescope is seeing the black hole, which has about one billion solar masses, when the Universe was less than one billion years old. Studying its rapid accretion could explain how some black holes become so massive so soon after the Big Bang.



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