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Astronomers find first direct evidence of gigantic primordial stars that were among the first to form after the Big Bang


Cambridge, MA (December 9, 2025)— For two decades, astronomers have puzzled over how supermassive black holes, which are some of the brightest objects in the universe, could exist less than a billion years after the Big Bang. Normal stars simply couldn't create such massive black holes quickly enough.

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