JWST May Have Found The First Direct Evidence of a Primordial Black Hole (www.sciencealert.com)

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...has directly measured the mass of one of the mysterious 'Little Red Dots' (LRDs) spotted by JWST in the Epoch of Reionization, just 600 million years after the Big Bang...the rotation curve of QSO1 is neatly consistent with a galaxy rotating around a mass of about 50 million solar masses..."The only scenarios that can account for such a system are those invoking 'heavy seeds', such as direct collapse black holes (DCBHs, resulting from the direct collapse of massive pristine clouds), or primordial black holes (PBHs, formed in the first second after the Big Bang),"...The paper remains to be peer reviewed

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[-] Contramuffin@lemmy.world 9 points 3 weeks ago

This is common in scientific writing. Evidence, no matter how direct, will always suggest a conclusion, never prove it

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