Scientists find oldest-known black hole in the universe: ‘This is about as far back as you can practically go’

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  1. So, this isn’t on topic but I have a question and the black hole thing made me think of it. I don’t remember when it was but I remember hearing about a theory of the beginning of everything. I’m wondering if this is a common theory or if I’m missing stuff.

    So, time starts then big bang(Vegeta doesn’t have shit on this). Gas flows out then begins to gather together in clumps which would end up making galaxies. The gas bubble was so much pressure that a star couldn’t form, it collapses into a gigantic black hole. The rest of the gas outside of the gravity of the black hole begins to clump creating massive stars. The stars eventually explode then what is left over from the star reforms into a smaller star. The heavier matter that was created by the initial star gathers together in the star’s orbit and form planets.

    Is that the basic concept that people believe or is there something else?

  2. An estimated 300 million suns worth of mass makes it the oldest? Maybe it is just well fed.

  3. TomatoVanadis on

    It interesting that title is understatement. This black hole is further away than we can reach: a redshift of z=~9 means that its recession speed exceeds the speed of light (almost twice). We cannot reach this place; it is beyond our event horizon.
    (We sitll can see the light from it because when it was emitted, distance and recession speed was smaller)

  4. ThrowawayAl2018 on

    “Prevailing theory fails” yet again, so there is a lot of speculation of cosmic proportions on how and why things started.

    Yet we are no close to finding out answer with the best of science & imagination.

    Maybe most of these little red dots are actually black holes since galaxies should not be this bright in early universe.