Monster Black Hole

 

The discovery of a black hole of 7 billion solar masses in the normal-looking galaxy CID-947 is challenging to explain -- that's because, unlike a typical black hole, which contains up to 0.5% of its host galaxy's mass, the black hole in CID-947 contains about 10% of its host's mass. CID-947 is 11 billion light years away, which means the light that reaches Earth today originated when the universe was just 14% of its current age. It's conceivable, therefore, that black holes grew more efficiently in the early universe.

In this illustration a black hole emits part of the accreted matter in the form of energetic radiation (blue), without slowing down star formation within the host galaxy (purple regions).

CREDIT: M. HELFENBEIN, YALE UNIVERSITY / OPAC

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