Primordial black hole
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In cosmology, primordial black holes are hypothetical black holes that formed soon after the Big Bang. In the inflationary era and early radiation-dominated universe, extremely dense pockets of subato
Researchers using the James Webb Space Telescope in November 2025 confirmed an actively growing supermassive black hole within a "little red dot" galaxy named CANUCS-LRD-z8.6, just 570 million years after the Big Bang.
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Hawking radiation
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Hawking radiation is released outside a black hole's event horizon due to quantum effects according to a model developed by Stephen Hawking in 1974. This black-body radiation was not predicted by prev
Diagram by Jacob Bekenstein of the entropy on a black hole’s event horizon.
Black hole evaporation takes a long time relative to the current age of the universe, for black holes larger than a proton in diameter.