Telset.id, Jakarta – The James Webb Space Telescope has given scientists the ability to find celestial bodies that they could not find before. The latest, this sophisticated telescope has successfully uncovered the most distant Supermassive Black Hole in the universe.
quoted The telephone from Engadget on Sunday (09/07/2023), through Survei Cosmic Evolution Early Release Science (CEERS), researchers have discovered the most distant active supermassive black hole we have seen to date.
Thanks to the near- and mid-infrared images taken by James Webb, researchers were able to find a supermassive black hole in the galaxy they named CEERS 1019.
They were also able to determine that the black hole is 570 million years old, and is 9 million heavier than the sun. In addition, the data provided by the telescope allowed them to come to the conclusion that black holes eat up a lot of gas and produce new stars.
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“A merger of galaxies could be partially responsible for fueling activity in these galactic black holes, and it could also lead to increased star formation,” said CEERS team member Jeyhan Kartaltepe of the Rochester Institute of Technology in New York.
In fact, the CEERS Survey team also found two other ancient but small black holes through their data. The black hole CEERS 746 exists 1 billion years after the Big Bang, while the black hole CEERS 2782 dates back 1.1 billion years after the event.
With a mass of 9 million suns, the iCEERS 1019 black hole is much smaller than any other active supermassive black holes previously discovered. These celestial bodies usually contain more than 1 billion times the mass of the sun, which makes them brighter and easier to detect.
The black hole CEERS 1019 is more similar to the one at the center of our galaxy, which is about 4.6 million times the mass of the sun. NASA says scientists have long known that smaller black holes must have existed earlier in the universe. It’s just that after James Webb operates, they can confirm his whereabouts.
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“Until now, research on objects in the early universe has been largely theoretical. With Webb, not only can we see black holes and galaxies at extreme distances, we can now begin to see and measure them accurately. That’s the incredible power of this telescope,” explained CEERS team leader Steven Finkelstein of the University of Texas at Austin. [NM/IF]
2023-07-09 05:53:16
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