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 astrophysical theories. Located in the center of the galaxy LID-568, this ...

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 ...

Nov 07, 2024 09:46:00 Black hole LID-568 is growing at an astonishing rate, more than 40 times faster than the theoretical limit. by NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/J. da Silva/M. Zamani ...

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 ...

Currently, LID-568 stands at 7.2 million times the mass of the sun, compared to the 4.1-million-solar-mass of Sagittarius A*, which is the black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy.

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.

The discovery of LID-568 with a mass of 7.2 million times that of the Sun shows that these cosmic objects can actually gain weight at an impressive speed.

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.

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.

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, ...