A team of scientists found a black hole that formed soon after the Big Bang
https://www.npr.org/2025/08/13/nx-s1-5500427/oldest-known-supermassive-black-hole
A team of scientists found a black hole that formed soon after the Big Bang
https://www.npr.org/2025/08/13/nx-s1-5500427/oldest-known-supermassive-black-hole
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The fact that black holes this early exist is one of the big puzzles in cosmology. They either grew way faster than our models allow, or they formed from something exotic like direct collapse of massive gas clouds.