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New Black hole discovery- It was a whopper

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November 11, 2023

New Black hole discovery
It was a whopper

Black holeThis image contains the most distant black hole ever detected in X-ray. This is a composite of Chandra and James Webb Space Telescope. (X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO/Ákos Bogdán; Infrared: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI; Image Processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/L. Frattare & K. Arcand)

The most distant black hole ever discovered, and it is a whopper of one.

Using data from the Chandra X-ray Observatory and NASA’s James Webb Space telescope, researchers have found a black hole located 13.2 billion light years away from Earth. This is 470 million years after the Big Bang.

This black hole is “supermassive.” Using X-ray energy data from the Chandra Observatory and brightness detected by the Webb telescope, the researchers believe this black hole has a mass of between 10 and 100 MILLION Suns. Most other black holes in nearby galaxies are significantly smaller with a mass of 10,000 to 100,000 suns.

Scientists believe the massive black hole was created by a collapse of a huge cloud of gas during the early stages of the universe. Additional Webb data will be used to confirm these theories while getting a better understanding of the early stages of the universe.

The James Webb Space Telescope was launched on Christmas 2021 and began operating in July 2022 between 160,000 and 517,000 miles away from Earth. The Chandra X-Ray observatory was launched on July 23, 1999.

James West
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