r/spaceporn • u/npjprods • Jan 16 '22

The first simulated image of a black hole, calculated with an IBM 7040 computer using 1960 punch cards and hand-plotted by French astrophysicist Jean-Pierre Luminet in 1978 Pro/Processed

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u/Destructicon11 Jan 16 '22

That would be some of those conventional means I mentioned. There just simply hasn't been enough time for that much mass to clump in that way.

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u/petriescherry1985 Jan 16 '22

Ooohhh ok, I wasn't sure if that was considered a conventional system to the creation of supermassive black holes. What about the potential for black holes to have been eating large amounts of dark matter (if it truly exists) at the beginning of the universe? Or for that matter what if the amount of matter at the beginning of the universe was greater than originally theorized?

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u/Destructicon11 Jan 17 '22

I wish I could give you an answer but we simply don't know! Definitely like the way you're thinking though!