2023-11-08 20:00:00
This discovery by NASA telescopes might help astronomers understand how some of the first supermassive black holes formed in the cosmos.
The American space agency (Nasa) revealed this Monday, November 6 in a statement his latest discovery: a black hole hidden in the depths of the observable universe. Its particularity: it is the most distant black hole ever discovered to date.
Detected using the Chandra and James Webb space telescopes, this black hole was formed 4770 million years following the Big Bang and is located in a galaxy called UHZ1 located 3.5 billion light years from Earth.
“The black hole is at an early stage of growth that has never been observed before, its mass being similar to that of its host galaxy,” specifies the NASA press release.
Ten times larger than our Milky Way
Its size would also be ten times greater than that of our own Milky Way, whose radius represents 58,850 light years (one light year being equal to 9,500 billion kilometers).
Dizzying figures which mean that what was perceived from UHZ1 took 13.2 billion years to reach the instruments of Chandra and James Webb.
An important discovery
The results of this discovery might confirm theories that supermassive black holes already existed at the dawn of the universe.
As a reminder, black holes are objects that suck up absolutely everything in their path and from which it is impossible to escape. Their gravitational pull is so strong that even light cannot escape.
This scientific discovery is important for understanding how certain galaxies may have developed over time. And uncover other secrets of the Universe.
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