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A team of astronomers has discovered a black hole star in the early universe that radiates about 100 billion times more energy than any known star. The object, named MoM-BH*-1, is a new type of object that has been discovered by the team in Nature.
Astronomers have discovered an extremely unusual bright red spot in the early universe that resembles an enormous star but its energy production is closer to what a black hole might generate.
The object, named MoM-BH*-1, is a black hole star that radiates about 100 billion times more energy than any known star. This new type of object has been discovered by a team of astronomers in Nature, who after careful analysis concluded that it's an entirely new type of object. The team found that the black hole star is swaddled within shrouds of dense gas that effectively radiates in a manner reminiscent of stellar phenomena.
This discovery touches on the mystery surrounding supermassive black holes from the early universe, which weigh millions to billions of solar masses. The discovery of black hole stars may be the birth story of possibly every supermassive black hole, according to astronomer Rohan Naidu. The findings raise new questions and insights into little red dots and, by extension, the state of the early universe.
The study's analysis also complements conventional cosmological models, which predict that the earliest supermassive black holes are far larger than what's predicted. The team is eager to dig deeper into the mystery of black hole stars and has already secured JWST observation time. They will be hard at work locking down the detailed physics of these remarkable objects, how massive exactly are they, and what do their stellar features tell us about their stellar atmospheres
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