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JWST Spots Giant Black Holes All Over the Early Universe (www.quantamagazine.org)

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Giant black holes were supposed to be bit players in the early cosmic story. But recent James Webb Space Telescope observations are finding an unexpected abundance of the beasts.

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[-] chimerical@toast.ooo 1 points 1 year ago

According to this calculator a black hole the size of the moon would take 584,745,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 years. I'm always open to correction though. (5.84745E44)

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