JWST Discovers Black Hole That Formed Before Its Host Galaxy, Challenging Formation Models
Summary: The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), observing the Abell2744-QSO1 "Little Red Dot" quasar, has found a supermassive black hole with a mass approximately 40 million times that of the Sun — and it appears to have existed before its host galaxy fully formed. This finding overturns the standard model of supermassive black hole formation, which holds that such objects grow gradually from collapsed massive stars over hundreds of millions of years. Cambridge astrophysicist Roberto Maiolino described it as "a paradigm shift, a total revisiting of the classical scenario."