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Astronomers may have found a star powered by a black hole

Surreal observatory view of a crimson cosmic cocoon surrounding a perfectly dark center. — Original Nogical illustration · Conceptual image, not telescope data

A James Webb observation from the early universe is best matched, so far, by a growing black hole wrapped in a solar-system-sized cocoon of dense hydrogen. The team calls it MoM-BH*-1; the interpretation remains a scientific candidate, not a settled species of object.

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