SANDAG looks to move tracks off eroding bluffs and is seeking public input.
Even more astounding to scientists than its age is its size — 10 times bigger than the black hole in our own Milky Way.CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Scientists have discovered the oldest black hole yet, a cosmic beast formed a mere 470 million years after the Big Bang., published Monday, confirm what until now were theories that supermassive black holes existed at the dawn of the universe. NASA’s Given the universe is 13.7 billion years old, that puts the age of this black hole at 13.2 billion years.
“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.
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