Using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, researchers found that almost all of its light comes from a central black hole wrapped in a tight shell of stormy hydrogen gas, rather than from stars in a surrounding galaxy. That makes this object, dubbed MoM-BH*‑1, the strongest evidence yet of a newly proposed type of space object — a so-called black hole star — giving scientists a firm blueprint for a whole population of puzzling objects Webb has spotted near the beginning of time. This is where the term "black hole star" comes in: It's not an actual star, per se, but a stage where a black hole sits at the center of a star‑size ball of gas, feeding rapidly on material.