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Researchers spot black hole feeding at 40x its theoretical limit
May explain how the Universe built supermassive black holes so quickly after the Big Bang.
It is possible to exceed the Eddington Limit if matter falls directly into the black hole without spending time in the accretion disk, but it requires a fairly distinct configuration of nearby clouds of gas, something that's unlikely to persist for more than a few million years. There are theoretical ideas about the direct collapse of gas clouds that avoid the intervening star formation and immediately form a black hole with 10,000 times the mass of the Sun or more, but they remain entirely hypothetical. Imaging in the infrared shows that it appears to be a point source, so the research team concluded that most of the light we're seeing comes directly from the accretion disk, rather than from the stars in the galaxy it occupies.
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