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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