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Black Hole Star Discovered in Early Universe | Science News
Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have stumbled upon a cosmic enigma: a glowing red object so bizarre it’s dubbed a “black hole star.” It looks like a giant star but radiates a hundred billion times more energy than any normal star — behavior more typical of black holes. Hidden inside a gas cloud as big as our solar system, this mysterious object may be a supermassive black hole (100,000 solar masses) cloaked in hydrogen. Its unique light signature, including a sharp Balmer break and near-total lack of heavier elements, points to an unprecedented cosmic hybrid. Nicknamed…
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