JWST spots a bizarre “black hole star” 100 billion times brighter than a star
Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have discovered a bizarre object from just a few hundred million years after the Big Bang that looks like an enormous star but shines far too brightly to actually be one. The mysterious red object, dubbed a “black hole star,” may contain a black hole about 100,000 times the mass of the Sun wrapped inside a dense, star-like cocoon of hydrogen…
Scientists have discovered a strange celestial object that appears to combine a black hole and a star. The unusual entity was spotted by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and appears to be 100 billion times brighter than a typical star. The object's immense brightness suggests it is powered by a black hole at its core, with an extremely dense cloud of gas surrounding it.
Researchers from MIT and other institutions propose that this "black hole star" may be an entirely new type of cosmic phenomenon. While the object's true nature remains uncertain, this discovery could shed light on the mysterious "little red dots" observed in deep space images taken by JWST.
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