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Shadows of Colossal Black Holes on Ancient Light ⚡ экспресс

Original: "Shadows of Giants: Constraints on Stupendously Large Black Holes from Negative Sources against the Cosmic Microwave Background"
· Brian C. Lacki
arXiv:2602.22587 · 2026-02-26 · CC BY · ⏱ 1 min · Cosmology General Relativity
The most distant black holes cast the sharpest shadows on the light left over from the Big Bang.
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The largest black holes in the Universe can be found by their shadows. Surprisingly, the farther away such a hole is, the sharper its shadow appears on the ancient light of the Big Bang. This discovery puts an end to the existence of black holes heavier than a hundred million billion suns.

🎯 If one of these black holes were at the center of the Milky Way, its edge (the event horizon) would lie beyond the orbit of Pluto.

🎬 In Interstellar, Gargantua was depicted, but real supermassive black holes are millions of times more massive.

Scientists
Alan GuthAndrei LindeGeorges LemaîtreJames PeeblesAdam RiessBrian Schmidt
Tags
black hole big bang expansion of the universe
Laws
Friedmann equationsHubble's lawHawking radiationgravitational lensingBekenstein-Hawking entropyEinstein field equations
Original: arXiv:2602.22587 · CC BY · bridge42worlds