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Astronomy & science · first seen 17 Aug, updated 17 Aug

JWST spotted an object 660 million years after the Big Bang that looks like a star the size of our solar system but shines 100 billion times brighter than any star — and the only thing that could explain it is a black hole wrapped inside

MoM-BH*-1 is a compact source at redshift 7.7569 whose extreme spectrum fits a black hole buried in dense gas, although the Solar System scale and luminosity are modelled. The post JWST spotted an object 660 million years after the Big Bang…

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  1. SpaceDaily
    JWST spotted an object 660 million years after the Big Bang that looks like a star the size of our solar system but shines 100 billion times brighter than any star — and the only thing that could explain it is a black hole wrapped inside