James Webb spotted a bizarre object just 660 million years after the Big Bang that looks like an enormous star but shines with roughly 100 billion Suns’ worth of energy — because hidden inside its star-like cocoon is an accreting black hole, rather than a core powered by nuclear fusion.
In a Webb image, MoM-BH*-1 is scarcely more than a red point. Its spectrum, however, looks like no…