In November last year, scientists discovered a black hole, named LID-568, devouring matter at a phenomenal rate -- over 40 times the theoretical limit, called the Eddington limit.

The black hole, called LID-568, was observed as it existed just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang — much too early in the history of the universe for it to have gotten that huge.

Astronomers have discovered LID-568, a fast-feeding black hole at the center of a dwarf galaxy just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang. Using NASA’s James Webb and Chandra X-ray Observatory, ...

LID-568, a black hole that existed just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang, was found feeding on a cloud of matter at almost 40-times faster than the upper limit. May 22, 2025 e-Paper.

An illustration of two black holes about to merge into one. (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech) The finding about LID-568's feeding frenzy was far from the last word on early supermassive black hole ...

LID-568 glows 4000 times brighter than this, and likely grows at a similarly super-Eddington rate. The best way to understand how this is possible is to understand the origin of the Eddington limit.

LID-568 may provide an answer as it is the first direct evidence of a black hole experiencing super-Eddington accretion. Suh said that this discovery “suggests that a significant portion of ...

A rapidly feeding black hole at the center of a dwarf galaxy in the early universe, shown in this artist’s concept, may hold important clues to the evolution of supermassive black holes in general.

More than that, LID-568 could shed a bit of light on how these massive space objects, which exist at the center of pretty much every galaxy we know of, got so big so fast.

Earlier this month, a team of US National Science Foundation NOIRLab astronomers discovered a supermassive black hole, called LID-568, that was abnormally bright, which means it was consuming ...

This artist’s illustration shows a red, early-Universe dwarf galaxy that hosts a rapidly feeding black hole at its center. The theory goes that black holes accrete material, often from nearby ...