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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.
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