A stronomers discovered a supermassive black hole, designated LID-568, that is feeding on matter at an extraordinary rate in the early universe. Observed approximately 1.5 billion years after the ...

A supermassive black hole in the early universe is consuming material at an unprecedented rate, challenging long-standing ...

Earlier this month, a team of US National Science Foundation NOIRLab astronomers discovered a supermassive black hole, called LID-568, that was abnormally bright, which means it was consuming ...

According to the scientists' calculations, the black hole — dubbed LID-568 — is consuming matter at a whopping 40 times what had been believed to be the theoretical limit.

LID-568 may provide an answer as it is the first direct evidence of a black hole experiencing super-Eddington accretion. Suh said that this discovery “suggests that a significant portion of ...

LID-568 cannot be seen in visible or near-infrared light, but the James Webb Space Telescope's Near-Infrared Spectrometer (NIRSpec) was able to detect faint X-ray emissions.

One of those objects, LID-568, stood out immediately. LID-568 has high X-ray emission from its central black hole, but Webb is the only instrument capable of gathering this data.

The investigation of LID-568, however, has just begun. Astronomers want to know how this black hole broke its Eddington limit, which means more viewing with the Webb telescope.

The discovery of LID-568 seems to show it is possible for a supermassive black hole to exceed the theoretical limit, as well as providing new insights. The newly published research can be viewed ...

Named LID-568 and observed just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang, the object has been dubbed the fastest-feeding black hole in the early universe.

LID-568’s light, for example, hailed from when the universe was just 1.5 billion years old, or just 10 percent its current age. “During this time, we expect the black holes were likely ...

LID-568 has high X-ray emission from its central black hole, but Webb is the only instrument capable of gathering this data. The team used a wider-angle instrument, ...