天文学家利用詹姆斯·韦伯太空望远镜在早期宇宙中发现了一个被称为"黑洞星"的异常天体，命名为MoM-BH*-11。这个天体外形酷似巨大星球，但其亮度异常惊人，约为任何已知星体的100亿倍1。研究人员推测，该天体内部包含一个质量约为太阳100,000倍的黑洞，被致密氢气所包裹，其范围大约相当于太阳系的大小1。
这项由麻省理工学院天文学家主导的研究表明，该神秘天体存在于宇宙极早期，距今仅几亿年1。首席作者Rohan Naidu表示，"我们在任何天体中观察到的最深的Balmer break，排除了普通星体作为来源"1，这一独特的光谱特征有力证实了这一发现的异常性质。这项成果已发表在《自然》期刊2026年第656卷第8127期上1，可能为詹姆斯·韦伯望远镜早期观测中频繁出现的神秘"小红点"现象提供了新的解释1。
Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have identified a puzzling celestial object in the early universe that defies conventional classification.1 The object, designated MoM-BH*-1, appears as a massive star-like body but exhibits extraordinary luminosity—approximately 100 billion times brighter than any known star.1 Researchers at MIT and other institutions propose that the object's exceptional brightness results from a black hole with a mass roughly 100,000 times that of the Sun, wrapped in a dense envelope of hydrogen gas spanning approximately the size of our solar system.1
The discovery was made during observations from a period when the universe was only a few hundred million years old, marking an intriguing anomaly in early cosmic history.1 The object's distinctive spectroscopic signature—characterized by what lead author Rohan Naidu describes as "the deepest Balmer break we have observed in any object," which rules out conventional stars as the source—provides compelling evidence for the black hole hypothesis.1 This finding may illuminate the nature of mysterious "red dot" phenomena frequently detected in earlier James Webb observations.1 The research was published in Nature, Volume 656, Issue 8127, in 2026.1
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