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NASA’s JWST Uncovers a ‘Feeding Frenzy’ That Births Supermassive Black Holes

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Astronomers may have solved how supermassive black holes formed so soon after the Big Bang. New simulations show that gas-rich, turbulent early galaxies allowed brief super-Eddington feeding bursts, enabling ordinary stellar-mass black holes to grow rapidly into the giants seen by JWST.Astronomers may have solved how supermassive black holes formed so soon after the Big Bang. New simulations show that gas-rich, turbulent early galaxies allowed brief super-Eddington feeding bursts, enabling ordinary stellar-mass black holes to grow rapidly into the giants seen by JWST.