{"id":243044,"date":"2026-08-22T01:23:52","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T06:23:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/jwst-finds-a-star-100-billion-times-brighter-than-any-star-should-be"},"modified":"2026-08-22T01:23:52","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T06:23:52","slug":"jwst-finds-a-star-100-billion-times-brighter-than-any-star-should-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/jwst-finds-a-star-100-billion-times-brighter-than-any-star-should-be","title":{"rendered":"JWST Finds a \u201cStar\u201d 100 Billion Times Brighter Than Any Star Should Be"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/jwst-finds-a-star-100-billion-times-brighter-than-any-star-should-be2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Something in the young universe is shining like a star that should not be possible.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>NASA\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/tag\/james-webb-space-telescope\/\">James Webb Space Telescope<\/a> has detected a compact red object so luminous that ordinary nuclear fusion cannot plausibly explain it. Although the source has a star-like appearance and may be surrounded by gas on the scale of the solar system, it radiates roughly 100 billion times more energy than any known star could physically produce.<\/p>\n<p>The leading explanation is far stranger: the glow may come from a rapidly feeding black hole buried inside an enormous, dense envelope of hydrogen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Something in the young universe is shining like a star that should not be possible. NASA\u2019s James Webb Space Telescope has detected a compact red object so luminous that ordinary nuclear fusion cannot plausibly explain it. Although the source has a star-like appearance and may be surrounded by gas on the scale of the solar [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,873],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-nuclear-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243044","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243044\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}