{"id":182130,"date":"2024-02-06T12:25:13","date_gmt":"2024-02-06T18:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/new-findings-from-jwst-how-black-holes-switched-from-creating-to-quenching-stars"},"modified":"2024-02-06T12:25:13","modified_gmt":"2024-02-06T18:25:13","slug":"new-findings-from-jwst-how-black-holes-switched-from-creating-to-quenching-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/new-findings-from-jwst-how-black-holes-switched-from-creating-to-quenching-stars","title":{"rendered":"New findings from JWST: How black holes switched from creating to quenching stars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-findings-from-jwst-how-black-holes-switched-from-creating-to-quenching-stars2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Astronomers have long sought to understand the early universe, and thanks to the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), a critical piece of the puzzle has emerged. The telescope\u2019s infrared detecting \u201ceyes\u201d have spotted an array of small, red dots, identified as some of the earliest galaxies formed in the universe.<\/p>\n<p>This surprising discovery is not just a visual marvel, it\u2019s a clue that could unlock the secrets of how galaxies and their enigmatic black holes began their cosmic journey.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe astonishing discovery from James Webb is that not only does the universe have these very compact and infrared bright objects, but they\u2019re probably regions where huge black holes already exist,\u201d explains JILA Fellow and University of Colorado Boulder astrophysics professor Mitch Begelman. \u201cThat was thought to be impossible.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astronomers have long sought to understand the early universe, and thanks to the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), a critical piece of the puzzle has emerged. The telescope\u2019s infrared detecting \u201ceyes\u201d have spotted an array of small, red dots, identified as some of the earliest galaxies formed in the universe. This surprising discovery is not [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182130","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}