The Webb telescope captured a galaxy shaped like ∞ that could reveal how giant black holes are born
In addition, two consolidated black holes are already visible, one at the center of each galaxy that forms the structure.
The main hypothesis suggests that this gas cluster is the result of a direct collapse, without passing through the star stage.
This type of formation would explain how giant black holes were caused so early in the history of the cosmos.
Scientists can't understand how such large black holes existed so soon after the Big Bang.
There would not have been enough time for stars to be born, die, and merge as previously believed.
However, scientists emphasize that the data obtained support the idea of a newly formed black hole.
Astronomers have discovered a top-tier collision with an unusual shape. The structure was nicknamed "Infinity Galaxy" because its silhouette resembles the infinity symbol.
However, the most striking thing is not its appearance. At the center, there could be a supermassive black hole in the process of forming, something that has never been seen so directly.
It is the merger of two very distant galaxies, captured by the James Webb telescope and the Chandra X-ray Observatory.
The light emitted by this structure comes from about 13.3 billion years ago, when the universe was just 470 million years old.
From Earth, the silhouette looks like a sideways eight. At the center of that figure, scientists detected a region of compressed gas that could be hiding a supermassive object.
