Not exact matches
Do you know that just recently, some evolutionary biologists discovered that some species
grow younger with age, which is contradictory to the Evolutionary Theory, and that our Solar System has no
Black Holes, which is contradictory to the
Big Bang Theory?
Considering we are seeing this giant
black hole's activity from a time when the universe was only a tenth of its present age, astronomers are puzzled about how it could've
grown so
big so fast.
These gas - filled limbs are often where new stars form, and can constrain how
big a galaxy's central
black hole grows.
Scientists aren't sure how
black holes grew so
big so early.
This environment would have limited
black holes from
growing very
big as molecular hydrogen turned gas into stars far enough away to escape the
black holes» gravitational pull.
Evidence for supermassive
black holes — weighing millions or billions of suns — has been found in the early universe, but no one knows how they
grew so
big so fast.
TOO
BIG, TOO SOON Supermassive
black holes that are actively feeding on gas and dust, like the one shown in this artist's rendition, have been spotted in the early universe — before they should have had time to
grow.
The usual hypotheses are that these
black holes were either born unexpectedly
big, or
grew up fast.
The finding suggests that supermassive
black holes sprung up surprisingly quickly after the
Big Bang and
grew faster than the galaxies surrounding them.
The fact that several such pristine galaxies turn out to have a small, still - expanding
black hole at their core suggests that
black holes can
grow to intermediate size without mergers, but then need to pool their resources to get much
bigger.
How these
black holes got so
big is still a mystery: did they
grow gradually from mergers of smaller
black holes, coalescing when their host galaxies merged?
u «Astronomers are puzzled about how the oldest supermassive
black holes could have
grown so
big so early in cosmic history.»
All
big galaxies in the universe host a supermassive
black hole in their center and in about 10 percent of all galaxies, these supermassive
black holes are
growing by swallowing huge amounts of gas and dust from their surrounding environments.
«Another way for a
black hole to
grow this
big is for it to have gone on a sustained binge, consuming food faster than typically thought possible,» said study lead author Chao - Wei Tsai, also of JPL.
Given the 13.8 billion years that have passed since the
Big Bang, it may be enough time for supermassive
black holes to
grow to their gigantic sizes, but how then do we explain that some of them formed less than 800 million years after the universe came into existence?
Ciriaco Goddi, of the Leiden Observatory in the Netherlands, says he
grew up in a small village in the mountains of Sardinia, where he didn't encounter anyone that might spark an interest in science until he saw Hawking's 1988 book, A Brief History of Time: From the
Big Bang to
Black Holes.
Once a supermassive
black hole turns into a quasar, its proximity zone
grows very quickly, and by observing how
big this zone is, scientists can estimate the duration the quasar has been active for.
Using data from the image, researchers found that these
black holes grew in bursts, rather than by slowly accumulating matter, about one to two billion years after the
Big Bang.