How The ∞ Galaxy Changes Our Understanding of Supermassive Black Hole Formation

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👉 [Interview+] SECRET Bonus Part. No YT ads. It's FREE https://www.patreon.com/posts/136413229 😍 PROMO -57% OFF your first month on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/posts/join-my-patreon-134941769 How did supermassive black holes get so big so early? There are two main models for that, and JWST just got a huge boost for the one that suggests they can form via a direct collapse of gas clouds. How did the researchers pull the first observations of a potential birth of a SMBH? Finding out in this interview. 🟣 Guest: Dr. Pieter van Dokkum https://physics.yale.edu/people/pieter-van-dokkum 📜 The JWST Might Have Found the First Direct-Collapse Black Hole https://www.universetoday.com/articles/the-jwst-might-have-found-the-first-direct-collapse-black-hole 📜 The ∞ Galaxy: A Candidate Direct-collapse Supermassive Black Hole between Two Massive, Ringed Nuclei https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/addcfe 📜 On the interpretation of ring galaxies: the binary ring system II Hz 4. Lynds, R. ; Toomre, A. https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1976ApJ...209..382L/abstract 00:00 Intro 02:18 Supermassive black holes 11:57 The Discovery 21:38 Implications for cosmology 34:17 Current obsessions 42:35 Final thoughts 📰 GUIDE TO SPACE NEWSLETTER Read by 70,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe for Free: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) You are free to use my work for any purpose you like, just mention me as the source and link back to this video.