As astronomers read back into the first chapters of the universe's history, they have uncovered a horde of gigantic black holes that seem to have matured much faster than scientists thought possible. Natarajan and her colleagues proposed a radical new explanation for how disks of gas could collapse directly into abnormally massive baby black holes without ever forming a star.
Last year a joint observation by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and the Chandra X-ray Observatory spotted a distant, radiant black hole that appears to verify Natarajan's prediction at last.
Schneider acknowledged that [Natarajan's] idea widened perspectives, stating, “It's definitely a very strong case in favor of these heavy black hole seeds.”
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