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The oldest black hole discovered by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). The age of this supermassive black hole is estimated to be 13 billion years. This means that this black hole was formed 400 million years after the ‘Big Bang’, the theory of the initial explosion of the universe.
This discovery could be a major step forward in efforts to understand how supermassive black holes reached masses equivalent to millions of billions of times the mass of the Sun in the early epochs of the universe.
This black hole is in the ancient galaxy GN-z11, which is 13.4 billion light years away. It is about 6 million times larger than the Sun and appears to be consuming material from surrounding galaxies five times faster than the limit predicted by current theories.
According to Roberto Maiolino, Professor of Astrophysics at the University of Cambridge, this discovery implies that black holes may have formed in other ways, perhaps having been born large or consuming matter more quickly than we previously thought.
“It’s not its age that’s surprising, it’s the fact that it was already so big at the beginning of the universe, which is difficult to explain with standard theory,” Maiollino was quoted as saying detikINET from Newsweek.
The galaxy where this black hole was found also baffles astronomers because of its extraordinary level of brightness. “The galaxy is so luminous and compact that it was originally discovered by the Hubble Space Telescope. However, the nature of the galaxy’s high luminosity was a mystery for many years, because it would require a large number of young stars in a small part of the galaxy,” explained Maiollino.
It turns out that new research from HWST reveals that the high luminosity in this galaxy does not come from existing stars, but from hot gas swirling around the black hole.
The black hole may be devouring its host galaxy too quickly, slowly killing it by stopping the formation of new stars. That will hinder the continuity of the galaxy and will eventually kill the black hole itself because it runs out of stars to eat.
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2024-01-19 00:45:16
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