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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There’s one right behind us, isn’t there?

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There’s a mod joke in there somewhere.

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something something landed gentry

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The sky…it’s fulla holes.

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Yep, we’re all gonna die when that thing gobbles us… In a few millions of years.

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The things we see are from a millions years ago, who knows where or how big these are right now, might not even exist any more.

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*Billions (13,000+ million). Based on our current understanding and their close proximity to each other in the early universe, most of them would have likely merged and many/most may be now at a size where it would take a google years to evaporate. The extremely small ones that did not merge may have already evaporated.

Source: Hawking radiation

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From my understanding they would still have a looong way to go before they would have evaporated.

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