'Supermassive Black Holes' Discovered by James Webb Space Telescope Were Born in First Few Moments of Big Bang, Say Researchers

Astronomers have long speculated about the origins of particular supermassive black holes, which reportedly were fully formed in the earliest epochs of the universe, as per experts. According to a new study, these black holes came into being at the dawn of the Big Bang as tiny, primordial "seeds," Space reported.

The inception of these black holes became a source of contention after it was analyzed with the help of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) by experts. The readings put many of their previously-held assertions regarding the formation of black holes into doubt. New findings regarding the supermassive black holes were published in the Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics.

James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) observed that these supermassive black holes formed at the very edge of the cosmic dawn. This means that these particular black holes were birthed a few hundred million years after the Big Bang. This was just immediately after stars and galaxies had started to formulate. As per the accepted theories regarding the formation of black holes, these particular supermassive black holes should be impossible to exist.

Experts believe that black holes usually formulate after the death of massive stars, Live Science reported. The assumption was that the stars needed to be in existence for a long time before the black holes. The researchers associated with the paper assert that this was not the case with these supermassive black holes. According to their data, the first stars and the black holes they were focussing on ran parallel in terms of life cycle.

In this study, researchers have attempted to understand and postulate how Black Holes could come into existence at such a quick pace. They concluded that the 'supermassive black holes' were born in the first few moments of the Big Bang. At that phase, these black holes were just as small as asteroids which then dissolved due to so-called Hawking radiation.

The team speculates that these 'primordial' entities somehow found themselves in the densest collections of matter and achieved supermassive status. It is in this state that JWST captured them in the space.

Experts further assert that these black holes did not come into being due to the 'death' of stars, Space reported. Instead, they were the results of matter and energy being compressed in high densities during the chaotic fluctuations that took place during the early days after the Big Bang.

Researchers claimed that the study's assertion is just a speculation at this point, and want their hypothesis to be incorporated into the evolution simulations of the first stars and galaxies in the universe. This would aid them in validating their proposed claims.