{"id":181436,"date":"2024-01-26T14:26:03","date_gmt":"2024-01-26T20:26:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/jwst-turns-up-even-more-heavier-than-expected-black-holes"},"modified":"2024-01-26T14:26:03","modified_gmt":"2024-01-26T20:26:03","slug":"jwst-turns-up-even-more-heavier-than-expected-black-holes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/jwst-turns-up-even-more-heavier-than-expected-black-holes","title":{"rendered":"JWST turns up even more heavier-than-expected black holes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/jwst-turns-up-even-more-heavier-than-expected-black-holes.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Astronomers are using it to peer back to near \u201ccosmic dawn,\u201d a time when the first stars and galaxies were forming. And JWST is showing that these early galaxies are different than astronomers had anticipated, in a plethora of ways: Some are settling into shapes we didn\u2019t think were possible so early after the Big Bang. Others are unexpectedly large.<\/p>\n<p>And recent research shows that even the black holes in the early universe were odd \u2014 they\u2019re way bigger than they should be, relative to the mass of the galaxy around them. Unexpectedly, JWST is spotting mammoth black holes anchoring relatively small galaxies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astronomers are using it to peer back to near \u201ccosmic dawn,\u201d a time when the first stars and galaxies were forming. And JWST is showing that these early galaxies are different than astronomers had anticipated, in a plethora of ways: Some are settling into shapes we didn\u2019t think were possible so early after the Big [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181436\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}