Scientists have discovered a rare red black hole

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has captured a red supermassive black hole with an incredibly large mass. It appeared long before the birth of the solar system, 700 million years after the birth of the universe. It is important to understand that the black hole itself does not emit anything, but only absorbs matter from the surrounding space. The light that made the discovery of this unusual object possible is emitted from an accretion disk. The accretion disk is hot material that rotates around the black hole at high speed and continuously falls into the black hole. The black hole’s unusual red color appears to indicate that its accretion disk is surrounded by large amounts of dust, blocking the passage of shorter wavelengths of light. The discovered black hole is located approximately 13 billion light years away and existed when the universe was only 700 million years old. Modern astronomical equipment does not allow us to test this assumption, but it is quite possible that it still exists today. James Webb’s discoveries increasingly suggest that black holes may have emerged much earlier than classical galaxies and star systems. Perhaps it was they who “attracted” matter to themselves and thereby became the centers of star formation.