In science news this week, we learn about a slew of new black holes, blue whales that keep singing, our little-known sleep cycles, and the complex process of human evolution. (Image credit: NASA/ESA and Eco2drew via Getty Images) Jump to:
Black holes have been in the spotlight this week, with a record-breaking discovery believed to be the earliest tear in space-time ever detected.
The black hole and its galaxy, collectively named CAPERS-LRD-z9, existed just 500 million years after the Big Bang and provide growing evidence that black holes began forming in our Universe much earlier than astrophysicists ever thought.
The earlier formation of black holes may explain how some of them balloon to colossal sizes. Take the black hole at the center of the Cosmic Horseshoe galaxy system: Scientists reported this week that they have discovered a black hole there that is 36 billion times the mass of the Sun, making it one of the largest cosmic monsters in the universe.
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