Astronomers Discover Oldest Black Hole Ever Observed, and It’s Feasting
The universe is 13.8 Billion years old and this newly discovered black hole is believed to be 13.4 billion years old. This would not only make it the oldest black hole discovered but an anomaly in the current models. Some working theories describe “black hole seeds” that would have formed in the first billion years of existence.
Physicists have previously put forward several scenarios for the origins of black holes, but because there hasn’t been a telescope powerful enough to glimpse that far back into time, they haven’t been able to test these ideas directly. That changed with the JWST.
“Before Webb came online, I thought maybe the universe isn’t so interesting when you go beyond what we could see with the Hubble Space Telescope,” said Maiolino. “But that hasn’t been the case at all: the universe has been quite generous in what it’s showing us, and this is just the beginning.”
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