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Oldest Black Hole Ever Seen Is 300 Million Times Bigger than Our Sun
The supermassive black hole in CAPERS-LRD-z9 formed just 500 million years after the Big Bang and has a mass up to 300 million times that of the Sun, researchers found.
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Thanks to the James-Webb space telescope, astronomers can now probe a period of the Universe that was so far inaccessible to them. And they have already made incredible discoveries. Today, that of the most distant supermassive black hole ever observed.
JWST Uncovers Earliest Supermassive Black Hole in Ancient Galaxy
In a groundbreaking revelation that challenges our understanding of cosmic evolution, astronomers have pinpointed what is now confirmed as the earliest black hole in the universe’s history. This supermassive entity, lurking within a distant galaxy known as CAPERS-LRD-z9, existed a mere 500 million years after the Big Bang, reshaping theories on how such colossal structures formed so rapidly in the universe’s infancy. Led by researchers at The Un…
A tiny red dot, which emitted its light more than 13.3 billion years ago, has turned out to be a galaxy with a huge black hole inside it that is active, that is, swallowing matter.Keep reading...
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