Hubble Space Telescope suggests our ancient universe was surprisingly crowded with supermassive black holes

[Admin]

A 14-year Hubble Space Telescope study suggests the universe was teeming with supermassive black holes. But how could that be?

Hubble Space Telescope suggests our ancient universe was surprisingly crowded with supermassive black holes : Read more

 

[Unclear Engineer]

So now the theory is that intermediate mass black holes essentially developed from the collapse of dense clouds of gas in the early universe, before there were stars and other black holes heating the gas. The article calls these collapsing areas the first stars, but I wonder if the collapses were slow enough for fusion to start and temporarily hold the collapsing gas back for a while, or if the gas just quickly developed an event horizon and the rest of he universe has no idea what goes on inside.

Or, perhaps we just have not properly calculated the age of he universe, and the areas we can now see (very faintly) are much older than the theory supposes, so that these black holes really had much more time to develop. A theory that just turns on and off an unknown and unconstrained "dark energy" with the power to do whatever a theory needs to work could probably be developed to do all sorts of things with the timing billions of years ago.