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JWST May Have Discovered a New Cosmic Object: The Black Hole Star

S2026 · E16 · 27 Aug 2026 · 15 min

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Gigantic black holes existed in a cosmic eyeblink after the Big Bang. That should be impossible. The James Webb Space Telescope has either made the problem much worse, or solved it by discovering the first Black Hole Star.