But theorists had a difficult time explaining how such massive black holes could have arisen so soon in the universe’s history.įor quasars and other objects that existed many billions of years ago, it’s meaningless to express their distances in terms of light-years. By the mid-2010s, it was no longer a big deal to find quasars dating back to 1 billion or 2 billion years after the Big Bang. In the 1990s, astronomers using a combination of ground- and space-based telescopes started to find extremely distant quasars powered by black holes of a billion or more solar masses. Quasars are brightly shining beacons of light and energy generated by the accretion of material onto supermassive black holes. So, based on our general understanding of how black holes form and grow, these black holes should not exist.Īnd yet they do - posing a major challenge that astrophysicists have yet to unravel. Stars were beginning to pop into being, but they existed in far fewer numbers than they do today.Īccording to the traditional picture of black hole formation and growth, the universe at this time simply had not existed long enough for black holes to bulk up to a billion solar masses. Gravity was just beginning to rein in clouds of gas and dark matter to form structures that would later evolve into mature spiral and elliptical galaxies. At that point in cosmic history, the universe was still a toddler. These gravitational giants existed when the universe was only 700 million years old, or 5 percent its current age. Containing roughly a billion times the mass of our Sun, these black holes were surrounded by disks of infalling matter shining so intensely that we can detect them across immense stretches of space and time. Writer(s): MATT BELLAMYLyrics powered by 2017, astronomers started finding monster black holes in the very early universe.
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