Astronomers have just found a black hole that shouldn’t exist.

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, scientists spotted a lonely giant called QSO1 — a black hole as heavy as 50 million suns, but with almost no galaxy around it. It’s one of the strangest objects ever seen in the early universe.

For decades, textbooks said galaxies formed first, and black holes came later as stars died and merged. But QSO1 flips that story upside down. It looks like a “naked” black hole — a monster existing on its own, just 750 million years after the Big Bang.

So how could it form? Some scientists think it might be primordial, a black hole born directly from the dense chaos of the Big Bang itself, an idea Stephen Hawking proposed back in 1971. Others suggest it could have come from a massive gas cloud that skipped making stars and collapsed straight into a black hole.

Whichever explanation turns out to be right, QSO1 shows that the early cosmos was far messier and more mysterious than we thought. It could mean black holes weren’t just the byproducts of galaxies — they may have been among the very first structures in the universe.

And with JWST finding hundreds of these “little red dots,” this discovery might just be the beginning of rewriting cosmic history.