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John Hutchings et al has found a quasar (the most distant known)
at approx 13 billion years, z=6.43. http://xxx.lanl.gov/PS_cache/arxiv/p...706.0914v1.pdf Since the mass of the quasar is 500 million suns, and it has formed in about 500 million years, it must have swallowed 1 sun/year more or less. Cited by Space.com, Hutchings says: "It is puzzling how such enormous black holes are found so early on in the universe ... because we believe that black holes take a long time to grow," said team member John Hutchings of the Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics. http://www.space.com/scienceastronom...blackhole.html Another data point. The universe just a few hundred million years after the supposed "bang" looks more and more exactly like our own neighborhood. |
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