{"id":218135,"date":"2025-07-17T06:33:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T11:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/jwst-finds-unusual-black-hole-in-the-center-of-the-infinity-galaxy-how-can-we-make-sense-of-this"},"modified":"2025-07-17T06:33:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T11:33:07","slug":"jwst-finds-unusual-black-hole-in-the-center-of-the-infinity-galaxy-how-can-we-make-sense-of-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/jwst-finds-unusual-black-hole-in-the-center-of-the-infinity-galaxy-how-can-we-make-sense-of-this","title":{"rendered":"JWST finds unusual black hole in the center of the Infinity Galaxy: \u2018How can we make sense of this?\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/jwst-finds-unusual-black-hole-in-the-center-of-the-infinity-galaxy-how-can-we-make-sense-of-this2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The researchers behind these findings uncovered the Infinity Galaxy while examining images from the JWST\u2019s 255-hour treasury <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2211.07865\" target=\"_blank\" data-url=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2211.07865\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" data-hl-processed=\"none\">COSMOS-Web<\/a> survey. In addition to the suspected direct collapse black hole that sits between the colliding galaxies, the team found that each nucleus of those galaxies also contains a <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/supermassive-black-hole\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/supermassive-black-hole\">supermassive black hole<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEverything is unusual about this galaxy. Not only does it look very strange, but it also has this supermassive black hole that\u2019s pulling a lot of material in,\u201d team leader and Yale University researcher Pieter van Dokkum <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/webbtelescope.org\/contents\/early-highlights\/nasas-webb-finds-possible-direct-collapse-black-hole\" target=\"_blank\" data-url=\"https:\/\/webbtelescope.org\/contents\/early-highlights\/nasas-webb-finds-possible-direct-collapse-black-hole\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" data-hl-processed=\"none\">said in a statement<\/a>. \u201cThe biggest surprise of all was that the black hole was not located inside either of the two nuclei but in the middle.<\/p>\n<p>We asked ourselves: How can we make sense of this?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The researchers behind these findings uncovered the Infinity Galaxy while examining images from the JWST\u2019s 255-hour treasury COSMOS-Web survey. In addition to the suspected direct collapse black hole that sits between the colliding galaxies, the team found that each nucleus of those galaxies also contains a supermassive black hole! \u201cEverything is unusual about this galaxy. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218135","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=218135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}