Unsolved Mystery in Physics | Direct Collapse Black Holes

How do the first black holes in the Universe form? How do they then grow into supermassive black holes weighing 800 million times the mass of the Sun within 600 million years of the Big Bang? Astrophysicists have been inferring the existence of direct collapse black holes for a long time to try and explain this unsolved mystery...

Here's hoping the James Webb Space Telescope will eventually help us solve this one.

Don't forget to send me your images of Comet 46P Wirtanen and the Gemenids Meteor Shower from this month - I'll be putting a couple of them in my SkyNews video next week. Put them in the comments or tweet them to me @drbecky_ 👍

A plethora of apologies for the blurry footage. I was going to reshoot this video the next day but then I got ill so this is what we're working with this week! Still trying to shake off this cough and cold 🤧

Also, yes the audio does change at 12:27 - I think my microphone slipped so it was a bit muted. All the tech problems this week! Hope you enjoyed regardless :)

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Dr. Becky Smethurst is a Junior Research Fellow at Christ Church at the University of Oxford.

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