A team of astronomers from the Gemini International Observatory has discovered a supermassive black hole that appeared just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang. His abilities amazed scientists.
It turns out that the “monster” of the early universe absorbed matter at an extreme rate, ten times the theoretically possible rate. The research was shared by the scientific journal Nature Astronomy.
The very greedy black hole was named LID-568. It was found using intense X-ray radiation using the James Webb Space Telescope’s NIRSpec integrated spectrograph. It turns out that the object consumes matter 40 times faster than the maximum possible rate, called the Eddington limit.
This limit expresses the maximum brightness a black hole can achieve, as well as how fast it can consume matter to balance the external pressure created by the heat of falling matter compressed by its internal gravitational force.
The discovery provided new insight into the formation of supermassive black holes from smaller “seeds”. According to scientists, LID-568 showed that supermassive black holes can emerge in a single accretion episode, regardless of the type of seed. Accretion is the accumulation of particles into a large object by the gravitational pull of more matter, usually gas, into the accretion disk.
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Source: People Talk
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