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Are JWST's early, overmassive black holes just normal-range outliers?
Ever since the JWST revealed a population of SMBH in the early universe that were overmassive, scientists have been working hard to explain them.
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Ever since the JWST revealed a population of SMBH in the early universe that were overmassive, scientists have been working hard to explain them. These black holes existed when the universe was only about 2 billion years old, during Cosmic Noon, and according to our models of black hole growth, there simply wasn't enough time for them to grow so massive. There are only two overall explanations for this. One is that our understanding is off, and conditions were different in the early universe.
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