AFP news agency Report from Paris France on Jan. 19 that a study in Nature magazine indicates that the black hole engulfed its galaxy only 430 million years after the birth of the universe in a period known as “Dawn of the Universe”
Mr. Jan Scholz, astronomer from the University of Cambridge Co-authors of the study said that this makes the black hole 200 million years older than any other large black hole ever discovered. It is also 1.6 million times more massive than the Sun in our solar system.
“The fact that it had time to expand so quickly After the Big Bang occurred 13.8 billion years ago, it will provide new information for It is a ‘next generation theoretical model’ that aims to explain what creates black holes,” Scholz added.
The James Webb space telescope has discovered the oldest black hole ever detected, which was thriving so soon after the Big Bang that it challenges our understanding of how these celestial behemoths form, astronomers say https://t.co/cklI1GLUrA
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Such black holes are not visible like other black holes, but can be detected by large bursts of light caused by the absorption of nearby material. This light allows the Hubble Space Telescope to see galaxies. “GN-Z11” (GN-z11) in 2016 in the direction of the constellation Ursa Major.
However, the James Webb telescope has shown to outperform Hubble in 2022 as it makes more discoveries that scientists will have to keep up with. In addition to the black hole at the center of the GN-Z11 galaxy, the James Webb Telescope also found many galaxies. which was larger than expected
As for Mr. Stefan Charlotte, astrophysicist from France’s Institute for Astrophysics in Paris (IAP) suggests that black holes in the early universe may have formed in different ways than nearby black holes. The Webb and other future telescopes, such as the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Euclidean Telescope, will discover more of these black holes. In the earliest days of the universe.
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