Monster black hole from early cosmos challenges physics

The discovery of a supermassive black hole from the early cosmos is set to rewrite physics, say scientists.

An international team of astronomers detected a black hole that is 12 billion times the size of our Sun, they report today in the journal Nature .

The black hole, which formed just 900 million years after the Big Bang, is the source of a powerful beam of bright material known as a quasar.

“When we found this supermassive black hole we got very excited because we had found something that we never thought we could find,” says Dr Fuyan Bian of the Australian National University.

The team, led by Xue-Bing Wu at Peking University, discovered the black hole and quasar — known as SDSS JO100+2802 — using the Sloan Digital Sky survey, then followed up with three other telescopes.

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Interesting.

>With a luminosity of 420 trillion that of our Sun’s

Remember to take a few pairs of welding goggles.

Bubblecar said:

Interesting.

>With a luminosity of 420 trillion that of our Sun’s

Remember to take a few pairs of welding goggles.

But the discovery of the supermassive black hole powering the quasar presents a mystery: how can such a monster black hole grow so quickly in the early Universe?

“It’s very hard to make these kinds of supermassive black holes very early in the universe,” says Bian.

“We need to find some new theory that can grow the supermassive black hole much faster than we thought.” ***

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They are going to have to apply a working model of DM to align their predictions to observation on this scale.