How do some black holes get huge so early? This explains direct collapse, the conditions it needs, and why astronomers take the idea seriously. #BlackHoles #Astronomy #Space
Direct collapse to a black hole is a formation pathway in which a pristine gas cloud avoids breaking into normal stars and instead collapses almost straight into a massive black hole seed. The key trick is that Lyman-Werner radiation can suppress molecular hydrogen, removing the cloud’s main coolant and keeping it hot enough to fall inward rather than fragment.
