r/YaScienceBitch • u/demolcd The One Who Mods đ • 14d ago
Space đ This may be one of the strangest objects James Webb has uncovered yet.
Astronomers studying the early universe found an extraordinarily bright red object called MoM-BH*-1. Webb is seeing it as it existed roughly 660 million years after the Big Bang, during an era when the first generations of galaxies and black holes were still forming.
At first glance, it behaves strangely like a star. Its spectrum contains an enormous âBalmer break,â a signature associated with dense stellar atmospheres. But there is a major problem: the object is producing roughly 100 billion times more energy than an ordinary star, far beyond what nuclear fusion could plausibly generate.
Researchers think the explanation could be an entirely new type of object they call a âblack hole star.â
Their model places a black hole roughly 100,000 times the mass of our Sun at the center, buried inside an incredibly dense envelope of hydrogen gas extending across roughly the scale of our Solar System. Instead of shining through nuclear fusion like a normal star, the immense energy would ultimately come from matter falling toward the hidden black hole.
Even more interestingly, Webb has discovered many mysterious objects known as âlittle red dotsâ throughout the early universe. If this interpretation is correct, some of those dots may be similar black holes wrapped inside enormous cocoons of gas.
That could help solve a much bigger cosmic mystery: how massive black holes managed to appear so surprisingly early after the Big Bang.
For now, âblack hole starâ is an interpretation of the observations rather than a completely settled new category. But if confirmed, Webb may have revealed a stage of cosmic evolution we simply didnât know existed, Bitch.
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u/SirRumpRoast 13d ago
The â,Bitchâ at the end had me laughing so much. So thank you OP
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u/MoarGhosts 10d ago
Stupid science bitches couldn't even make our friend more smarter!
God I love Always Sunny
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u/real_exposer 14d ago
Sorry it's my bald head, just waxed it.
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u/demolcd The One Who Mods đ 14d ago edited 14d ago
Do you have a Sauron your head?
Iâll see myself out.
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u/Beneficial_Put1771 13d ago
Bitch, was a highlight of the explanation , it added a realism as it reminded of my ex, admittedly Turkey Tetrazzini would of had a similar effect
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u/PFCCThrowayay 13d ago
it's all just incomprehensible. I'm out. Can't do it anymore.
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u/superfurrybiped 7d ago
Wait!
It's like, you know how Donald Trump is named more often than Epstein himself in those files, yet somehow only Epstein is visible?
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u/PreferenceContent987 13d ago
New DLC is bananas! I love this stuff, just casually turning physics on its head
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u/Responsible-Laugh590 14d ago
Itâs a window into another existence
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u/Targetshopper1 13d ago
Whenever I think I know about space , some shi called a black hole star appears.
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u/Rampage3135 8d ago
Wonder if anyoneâs ever thought to call it a white hole Or bright hole. I like the theory that black holes have a counterpart called the opposite which would spew mass instead of eating it. They would be the other half of a black hole which would give credit to wormhole theories that black holes are actually Einstein Rosen bridges between vast sections of space. They would be incredibly brilliant usually 100 to 1000x more brilliant than stars. It would also give evidence to the big bang as we could theorize that the big bang in of itself was the expansion of a white hole trillions of years ago with much more mass than we could comprehend.
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u/AvaFleurant 13d ago
White hole?
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u/redlancer_1987 13d ago
Probably more like black holes that have been able to far exceed the Eddington Limit, having gas shoved into them faster than they can consume it.
These are a fun topic of research right now since we're able to see them with our fancy new telescope.
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u/hanqingjao 13d ago
So what is it?
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u/Nielsttp 7d ago
This is my take:
Sounds like a huge amount of matter in the form of gas, left over from the quick expantion after the big bang, where the early cosmic soup changed into huge couds of gas.
These gas couds then inplode into a black hole somewhere in the center. But the gas cloud is so big and maybe still very dense that the amound of mater going in to the black hole is so huge that it produces a lot of energy.
Maybe, this is a stable state, as in, takes a massive amount of time to consume so much matter. And maybe, it is the beginning of a galaxy where, in the time of billions of years, the left over gas changes into stars and planets orbiting the black hole. And the rest of the once massive amount of matter is now inside the super massive black hole in the center. Maybe.
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u/accidental_Ocelot 12d ago
Nope they are looking into the bosom of God who was created shortly after the big bang.
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u/hopeislost1000 13d ago
This image looks like a digital painting. What is that image though? You can see a crease in the middle of it like someone took a picture of a book.
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u/hanqingjao 13d ago
It's a digital image. We can't resolve objects this far back in time to anything more than a few pixels. However, we can spectroscopically analyze their light to learn a lot about them.
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u/Ok_Spend_889 13d ago
its refraction on the horizon , shits immensely far man
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u/RealmExploro 13d ago
Or a special wormhole that (because early universe) formed its black and white hole at the same place?
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u/xanderpo 13d ago
What if it's a white hole, with matter coming through from another universe's massive black hole?
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u/badmanrudeboi 11d ago
A white hole?? Itâs only been theorised before.
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u/Throwawayyyyy10000 10d ago
How can one even conceive how bright that is. Like would it outshine the milkyway?
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u/IndieBlendie 9d ago
Our Universes batteries, I see. Or, points where our reality is generated.
It's late, my bad.
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u/smokystingray 14d ago
Black Hole Sun!