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Physicists have a major problem: the universe’s first black holes grew too massive, too quickly. But a newly discovered black hole might hold the key. LID-568 has been spotted breaking the Eddington Limit, consuming matter faster than physics should allow. Could this discovery rewrite the story of our early universe?



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References:
“A super-Eddington-accreting black hole ~1.5 Gyr after the Big Bang observed with JWST”, via nature.com https://astrumspace.info/superEddington
“What can the James Webb Space Telescope do?”, via rmg.co.uk https://astrumspace.info/JamesWebb
“JWST Sees More Galaxies than Expected”, via physics.aps.org https://astrumspace.info/JWSTgalaxies
“Black Holes in Early Universe Are Too Big”, via skyandtelescope.org https://astrumspace.info/largeblackholes
“Is Cosmology in Crisis?”, via utexas.edu https://astrumspace.info/cosmologycrisis
“Webb Finds Early Galaxies Weren’t Too Big for Their Britches After All”, via nasa.gov https://astrumspace.info/earlygalaxies
“Black Hole Types”, via nasa.gov https://astrumspace.info/blackholetypes
“On the Eddington limit and Wolf-Rayet stars”, via aanda.org https://astrumspace.info/ontheEddingtonlimit
“NASA’s Hubble Finds Strong Evidence for Intermediate-Mass Black Hole in Omega Centauri”, via nasa.gov https://astrumspace.info/intermediateblackhole
“Black Holes Emit Surprisingly Strong Jets”, via aaas.org https://astrumspace.info/blackholejets



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Writer: Jon McColgan
Video Editor: Frame Forge
Researcher: Edie Abrahams
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Creator of Astrum: Alex McColgan



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