Black Hole Illusion: Were Telescopes Fooled for Decades?

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Scientists just made a jaw-dropping discovery — the terrifying supermassive black holes we thought ruled the early universe… might actually be 10 times smaller than we believed! :face_screaming_in_fear: Using a powerful new instrument called GRAVITY+, researchers measured a distant quasar and found surprising results that could rewrite everything we thought we knew about black hole growth and the evolution of galaxies :milky_way: WooGlobe Ref : WGA683748 For licensing and to use this video, please email licensing@wooglobe.com

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00:00What if supermassive black holes aren't so supermassive after all?

00:04Scientists just made a discovery that could rewrite our understanding of the universe.

00:08For decades, astronomers believed that black holes in early galaxies were absolutely enormous.

00:14But now, thanks to a powerful new tool called gravity,

00:18scientists say those cosmic beasts might actually be ten times smaller than we thought.

00:23Researchers studied a galaxy 12 billion light-years away.

00:26And instead of finding a monster black hole,

00:29they found one much smaller, still 800 million times the mass of the Sun,

00:33but far from what they expected.

00:35Turns out, previous methods might have been fooled by fast-moving gas jets and intense radiation.

00:41That cosmic illusion made these black holes look bigger to our telescopes than they really were.

00:46This discovery could change how we understand galaxy growth, black hole formation,

00:51and even the early universe.

00:53So maybe, the universe wasn't in such a rush to grow after all.

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