A supermassive black hole in the early Universe is the most voracious of its kind we've ever seen. It's sitting in the middle of a galaxy called LID-568, as seen just 1.5 billion years after the ...

This black hole, named LID-568, is consuming matter at a rate 40 times greater than the theoretical limit, known as the Eddington 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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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.

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and Chandra X-ray Observatory helped identify the “fastest-feeding black hole” - LID-568.

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 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 ...

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.

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 ...