Scientists have discovered the oldest black hole yet, formed a mere 470 million years after the Big Bang.
This annotated image provided by NASA on Monday, Nov. 6, 2023, shows a composite view of data from NASAs Chandra X-ray Observatory and James Webb Space Telescope indicating a growing black hole just 470 million years after the big bang. It is the oldest black hole yet discovered. – Scientists have discovered the oldest black hole yet, a cosmic beast formed a mere 470 million years after the Big Bang.
“It's just really early on in the universe to be such a behemoth," said Yale University's Priyamvada Natarajan, who took part in the study published in the journal Nature Astronomy. A companion article appeared in the Astrophysical Journal Letters."It’s astounding how this thing actually is sitting in place already with its galaxy so early on in the universe.”
This one is considered a quasar since it's actively growing and the gas is blindingly bright, she added. The two space telescopes — Webb and Chandra — used a technique called gravitational lensing to magnify the region of space where this galaxy, UHZ1, and its black hole are located. The telescopes used the light from a much closer cluster of galaxies, a mere 3.2 billion light-years from Earth, to magnify UHZ1 and its black hole much farther in the background.
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