Astronomers Discover an Entirely New Type of Object: a “Black Hole Star”

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Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have discovered a new type of cosmic monstrosity: a “black hole star.”

The glowing red object, dubbed MoM-BH*-1, is 100,000 times more massive than our Sun and is trapped in a shell of gas so thick that it looks like a star the size of the entire solar system. But unlike an actual star, it’s not fusion powering its center, but a black hole constantly devouring matter.

As detailed in a new study about the findings published in the journal Nature, the black hole at the object’s center is releasing 100 billion times more energy than any known star. And it’s ancient, having formed less than 700 million years after the Big Bang.

The object, astronomers say, is utterly peerless.

“It is a very special thing to find an object with no comparison given the vast stores of data on billions of stars, galaxies, and black holes that we have in our archival databases,” lead author Rohan Naidu, an astronomer at the University of Hawai’i, told Gizmodo. “MoM-BH*-1 is one in a billion!”

The existence of black hole stars was first hypothesized nearly two decades ago — originally conceived as “quasi-stars” — and received renewed interest when the James Webb first came online in 2022 and discovered hundreds of unexplained “little red dots” littering the early universe.

These crimson objects are so dense and massive that they defied our understanding of physics, being too large to be stars but too compact to be galaxies. If there was a supermassive black hole at the heart of them, none of them were producing telltale x-ray emissions that would be expected.  

Theories abounded, but the idea of a black hole star became one of the most appealing candidates: their ultra-dense shell of gas could block the x-rays from escaping. In May, the black hole star idea gained more credence when another team of astronomers said they detected x-rays coming from one of these objects, demonstrating that a black hole indeed resided at their center.

Naidu’s team made the discovery while trying to put together why the one of the hundreds of LRDs the Webb discovered exhibited a strange drop-off in the brightness of its light below certain wavelengths. This behavior is normally seen with young stars whose light gets filtered through dust in their nascent atmosphere, but the observations didn’t show any signs of dust. 

Instead, they ran simulations showing that a dense layer of hydrogen could produce the same effect, with a central black hole explaining its overpowering brightness.

If their findings are borne out, the discovery of MoM-BH*-1 suggests that the other Little Red Dots are black hole stars, too. 

“Every little red dot is consistent with being a black hole star, embedded in a generic early galaxy,” Naidu said in a statement about the work. “But what is special about MoM-BH*-1 is, the black hole star is essentially completely outshining its surrounding host galaxy, such that we’re seeing pure black hole star light.”

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IN the summer of 2019, I was seated in the wine cellar of a walled Medieval town high above the Dordogne Valley of France, not far from Sarlat-la-Canéda, making phone calls, writing reports. I have given this story in other places and it appears as though you’re about to hear it again. Rob Skiba is a name you that you might be familiar with. Though he had made a name for himself as a Nephilim researcher, more recently Rob had taken a dive into the deep end of the pool via flat earth research. The recorded interviews I conducted between he and Rick Hummer, a fellow flat earth investigator and close friend of his, was published while still occupying that very wine cellar. Read all about it. Chicago Is Not a Mirage.

Word quickly spread. Within a few short weeks, dozens of flat earth researchers began accepting my invite for a private interview, if not a series of interviews. From a 17th-century tower built by King Louis XIV, and with a stunning view of the Alps, I sat down with Robbie Davidson, founder of the Flat Earth International Conferences, conducting multiple sessions. While staying in Dumfries, Scotland, David Weiss agreed to take part in the interviews, as did Bob Knodel of Globebusters. There were others. But when I asked the interviewees to discuss the moments that shaped their lives, among the many PSYOPs, false flag attacks, and hoaxes that were discussed, only these men committed commentary to the false 9/11 narrative.

The resulting recordings ballooned into The Unexpected Cosmology, a book which became a website and was even intended as an anthology. And of course, the following discourse was originally a chapter. It was Walt Disney who stated, “Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world.” Those sentiments remain applicable here as well. American Sensationalism: The 9/11 Interviews was always intended to be expanded upon with the inclusion of new researchers. So I’m sorry to say the project became stagnant during the Covid-19 psychodrama. I took a break to tackle other projects. We lost Rob Skiba. Rob offered hours of private conversation regarding his life but we never got around to the big one. 9/11. It was in the cards. Sadly, Bob Knodel died soon afterwards. Voices are being squeezed from an entire generation. Gnosis passes with them.

In the aftermath, the FE community became fractured. People began going their separate ways. Robbie Davidson, among a noted few others who were interviewed for the project, got up and left the movement altogether. It is not my intent to erase his or the contributions of others if only brief. They came, they went, their testimonies remain.

The original vision may have hit roadblocks but it is not forgotten. I expanded this paper a few years later to include testimony from author Pauly Hart, a dear friend of mine. I had wanted to continue that trend every year thereafter but you know how it goes. For the 25th anniversary of the attack I have redirected my efforts to its first large scale expansion, including Andrew Hoy and Darrin Geisinger into the mix. Perhaps others will lend their experiences to the recorder in time.

The following is their report.

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