You have probably heard of supermassive black holes, or black hole that are almost unfathomably big. However, a discovery made by astronomers back in 2011 has had them scratching their heads ever since, because it is so big it’s unexplainable.
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00:00You have probably heard of supermassive black holes, or black holes that are almost unfathomably
00:09big.
00:10However, a discovery made by astronomers back in 2011 has had them scratching their heads
00:14ever since, because it's so big, it's unexplainable.
00:17The black hole is named J1120 plus 0641, and they say it's more than a billion times
00:24the mass of our sun.
00:25The black hole came into existence only 770 million years after the Big Bang.
00:31What's puzzling physicists is that black holes have a limit of how quickly they can consume
00:35material, called the Eddington limit.
00:37When black holes exceed this accretion speed, they begin to shine so brightly that their
00:40radiation repels material.
00:42They can, for a short time, exceed this limit, but that doesn't seem to be the case with
00:46J1120 plus 0641.
00:49Using the James Webb telescope, experts have been analyzing this incredibly sized black
00:53hole, but their conclusion is that aside from its extreme size, it's extremely normal.
00:57Their best guess at the moment is that when this black hole first popped into existence,
01:01it was seeded by a mysteriously supermassive source.