"By gathering very faint light that has travelled through space for billions of years, the JWST is allowing scientists to peer back further in time than ever before. At the very limits of what we can currently see are a group of objects known as the 'Little Red Dots'. These extremely small pinpricks of light formed during the 'Epoch of Reionisation', the billion-year period when light from the first stars was able to shine through the fog of the early universe."
"If this theory is proven correct, it could change everything scientists believe about the formation of the cosmos and the fundamental laws of physics. Co-author Professor Roberto Maiolino, of the University of Cambridge, told The Daily Mail: 'In this scenario, black holes would be the first entities formed in the universe, well before the formation of the first stars and first galaxies.'"
An ancient nearly naked black hole exists at the furthest reaches of the universe, dating to 600–700 million years after the Big Bang. The object contains roughly 50 times the mass of the Sun, far larger than expected for that epoch. The James Webb Space Telescope collected faint, ancient light that enabled measurement of properties such as rotation curve for the object labeled QSO1. The object's compact brightness places it among the Little Red Dots formed during the Epoch of Reionisation. Standard stellar-collapse formation cannot easily explain the object's mass so early, prompting consideration of primordial black holes formed from early-universe density fluctuations. Confirmation of a primordial origin would require revisions to models of cosmic formation and fundamental physics.
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