2023-11-07 01:19:00
LOS ANGELES, Nov. 6 (Xinhua) — Astronomers have discovered the most distant black hole ever detected by X-rays, using NASA telescopes, the space agency said Monday.
The black hole is at an early stage of growth that has never been observed before, with its mass similar to that of its host galaxy.
By combining data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and the agency’s James Webb Space Telescope, a team of researchers was able to find the telltale sign of a growing black hole, just 470 million years following the big bang.
This result might explain how some of the universe’s first supermassive black holes formed, NASA said.
The team discovered this black hole in a galaxy named UHZ1 in the direction of the galaxy cluster Abell 2744, located 3.5 billion light-years from Earth.
The Webb data, however, revealed that the galaxy is much further away than the cluster, 13.2 billion light years from Earth, where the universe was only 3% of its current age, according to the NASA. END
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