February 4 , 2025
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- NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and the Chandra X-ray observatory has discovered a bizarre black hole.
- The newfound black hole was designated LID-568.
- It is a low-mass supermassive black hole that existed just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang.
- The black hole was feeding 40-times greater than the Eddington limit on a surrounding cloud of matter.
- The rate at which a black hole feeds on matter is governed by what astronomers call the Eddington limit.

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