Timeline of the Big Bang (Image: GETTY)
"In this case, one that involves vast quantities of primordial, cold hydrogen gas directly collapsing into a seed black hole.
"In order for the black hole to have grown to the size we see with J0313-1806, it would have to have started out with a seed black hole of at least 10,000 solar masses, and that would only be possible in the direct collapse scenario."
The research published in the journal Astrophysical Journal Letters said that the black hole at the centre of J0313-1806 is digesting the equivalent of 25 Suns each year, "which is thought to be the main reason for its high-velocity hot plasma wind blowing into the galaxy around it at relativistic speed."