Webb Space Telescope Discovers Farthest Active Supermassive Black Hole Known
up when the universe was just over 4% its current age. The black hole lurks within the galaxy CEERS 1019, and at nine
million solar masses, is the least massive of any supermassive black hole yet seen in the early universe.For comparison, the black hole at the center of the Milky Way—Sagittarius A*—is less than fiveand can be billions of times the mass of our Sun. Like all black holes, they have such intense gravitational fields that not even light can escape their event horizons, leaving astronomers to image the “shadow” in which the black hole resides.
CEERS 1019’s black hole was spotted by a research team conducting the Cosmic Evolution Early Release Science Survey, or CEERS. The survey takes, which cover sweeping swaths of the sky and peer deeply into them, allowing scientists to see some of the universe’s most ancient light. The newest CEERS mosaic image is 510 megabytes—beyond what this website can handle—so if you’d like to peruse the cosmos in all its digitized glory you can download the full-size imageBesides CEERS 1019, the survey team spotted eleven galaxies that date to when the universe was between 470 million years old and 675 million years old, and two other black holes dating to around one billion years after the Big Bang, according to aFour papers on CEERS Survey data are set to publish in The...
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