Giant black holes were supposed to be bit players in the early cosmic story. But recent James Webb Space Telescope observations are finding an unexpected abundance of the beasts.

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      1 year ago

      The things we see are from a millions years ago, who knows where or how big these are right now, might not even exist any more.

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        *Billions (13,000+ million). Based on our current understanding and their close proximity to each other in the early universe, most of them would have likely merged and many/most may be now at a size where it would take a google years to evaporate. The extremely small ones that did not merge may have already evaporated.

        Source: Hawking radiation

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          From my understanding they would still have a looong way to go before they would have evaporated.