This Rapidly Growing Black Hole Is Challenging Super-Eddington Accretion

January 27, 2026 Universe Today

This Rapidly Growing Black Hole Is Challenging Super-Eddington Accretion
By Evan Gough (https://ift.tt/nxJl7f3)

This artist’s impression of a supermassive black hole system shows some of the detail in these puzzling objects. Infalling gas forms an accretion disk around the hole, with a bright corona of plasma nearest the black hole. The SMBH is also launching relativistic jets from its poles. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Why are SMBH in the early Universe so massive? According to astrophysical models, these extraordinarily large SMBH haven't had time to become so massive. Super-Eddington accretion might explain it, but can it explain a very unusual early SMBH recently discovered?

January 27, 2026 at 11:52PM
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