Tuesday, January 27, 2026

This Rapidly Growing Black Hole Is Challenging Super-Eddington Accretion

This artist’s impression of a supermassive black hole system shows some of the detail in these puzzling objects. Infalling gas forms an accretion disk around the hole, with a bright corona of plasma nearest the black hole. The SMBH is also launching relativistic jets from its poles. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Why are SMBH in the early Universe so massive? According to astrophysical models, these extraordinarily large SMBH haven't had time to become so massive. Super-Eddington accretion might explain it, but can it explain a very unusual early SMBH recently discovered?



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