In November last year, scientists discovered a black hole, named LID-568, devouring matter at a phenomenal rate -- over 40 times the theoretical limit, called the Eddington limit.

The black hole, called LID-568, was observed as it existed just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang — much too early in the history of the universe for it to have gotten that huge.

5. NASA Discovers Fast-Feeding Black Hole from Early Universe Astronomers have discovered LID-568, a fast-feeding black hole at the center of a dwarf galaxy just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang.

LID-568, a black hole that existed just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang, was found feeding on a cloud of matter at almost 40-times faster than the upper limit ...

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But LID-568’s X-ray emission was suspiciously stronger than the others, and they couldn’t pinpoint its exact position. JWST’s spectroscopic instruments are capable of multiple modes of ...

LID-568 appears to be feeding on matter at a rate 40 times its Eddington limit. This limit relates to the maximum amount of light that material surrounding a black hole can emit, as well as how fast ...

The black hole is called LID-568 and was spotted with help from some of the most potent star observation tools at our disposal today, the James Webb Space Telescope and the Chandra X-ray Observatory.

LID-568, was “accreting so much material than the maximum expected, exceeding this maximum limit luminosity,” Francesca Civano, Physics of the Cosmos Chief Scientist at NASA Goddard Space ...

If an object exceeds the limit then an immense outward force will result in it losing mass. When the luminosity of LID-568 was calculated it was much higher then should be theoretically possible.