The First Monster Black Holes. (cover story)

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  • Author(s): Natarajan, Priyamvada
  • Source:
    Scientific American. Feb2018, Vol. 318 Issue 2, p24-29. 6p. 13 Color Photographs.
  • Additional Information
    • Subject Terms:
      QUASARS; BLACK holes; JAMES Webb Space Telescope (Spacecraft); STAR formation; GALAXIES
    • Abstract:
      The article offers information on quasars which are bright objects powered by gas falling onto supermassive black holes. Topics discussed include information on the them direct-collapse black holes (DCBHs); information on the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) which will be launched in the year 2019; and an information that if star formation stalled in a budding galaxy, the entire gas disk could have collapsed into a black hole.