A team of astronomers have investigated one of the most distant and earliest galaxies known, and identified the reason for its unusual brightness. The galaxy is particularly bright because of an actively feeding supermassive black hole at its core. With the observation, Webb has also spotted the most distant supermassive black hole known. The …
View full image. | This image – captured by the Hubble Space Telescope in 2016 – shows the location of galaxy GN-z11. A supermassive black hole – the oldest-known black hole we know about at this time – lies in the center of this galaxy. Image via NASA/ ESA/ P. Oesch (Yale University). An international …
Updated Jan 19, 2024, 04:09 PM IST Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have discovered the oldest and most distant black hole ever observed. This cosmic behemoth, nicknamed GN-z11, lurks within a fledgling galaxy a staggering 13.4 billion light-years away, placing it just 440 million years after the Big Bang – the universe’s explosive …