Los Angeles (ANTARA) – Astronomers have discovered the most distant black hole ever detected via X-rays, using NASA telescopes, the United States space agency said on Monday (6/11).
The black hole is in an early stage of growth that has never been witnessed before, with a mass not much different from that of its host galaxy.
By combining data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, the research team managed to find signs of a developing black hole just 470 million years after the Big Bang.
These results may explain how some of the first supermassive black holes in the universe formed, NASA said.
The team discovered a black hole in a galaxy called UHZ1 in the direction of the galaxy cluster Abell 2744, which is located 3.5 billion light years from Earth.
However, the Webb data revealed that the galaxy was significantly farther away than the cluster, at 13.2 billion light years from Earth, when the age of the universe was only 3 percent of its current age, according to NASA.
2023-11-07 06:48:33
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