These probably aren't newborn direct collapse black holes — they are too close and recent. (sciencemag.org)
In 2016, they found several candidates, which seem to have formed through direct collapse and are now accreting matter from clouds of gas. (sciencemag.org)
«We think that the most massive black holes out there in the early universe formed from direct collapse, but the less massive ones could have formed in other ways,» says Priyamvada Natarajan at Yale University. (newscientist.com)