Webb Detects Most Distant Active Supermassive Black Hole to Date
Jul 6, 2023 · Researchers have discovered the most distant active supermassive black hole to date with the James Webb Space Telescope. The galaxy, CEERS 1019, existed just over 570 million years after the big bang, and its black hole is less massive than any other yet identified in the early universe.
James Webb Space Telescope spots most distant and oldest black hole …
May 16, 2024 · The James Webb Space Telescope has detected a merger between two supermassive black holes so distant it proceeded just 740 million years after the Big Bang.
James Webb Space Telescope discovers oldest and most distant black hole …
Jan 17, 2024 · The James Webb Space Telescope has spotted the oldest and most distant black hole ever seen. The discovery could explain how supermassive black holes grew so quickly.
ESA - Webb detects most distant black hole merger to date
May 16, 2024 · An international team of astronomers have used the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope to find evidence for an ongoing merger of two galaxies and their massive black holes when the Universe was only 740 million years old.
Supermassive black holes in 'little red dot' galaxies are 1,000 …
6 days ago · Related: Black holes: Everything you need to know The story begins with little red dots. Since JWST started beaming data back to Earth in the summer of 2022, the $10 billion telescope has helped ...
NASA’s Webb Sheds Light on Galaxy Evolution, Black Holes
Jul 12, 2022 · Even today, the topmost galaxy in the group – NGC 7319 – harbors an active galactic nucleus, a supermassive black hole 24 million times the mass of the Sun. It is actively pulling in material and puts out light energy equivalent to 40 billion Suns.
James Webb Telescope detects earliest known black hole - NPR
Jan 17, 2024 · Data from the James Webb Space Telescope indicate that a galaxy known as GN-z11 has a supermassive black hole at its center — one that's far more massive than astronomers expected.
James Webb telescope discovers the oldest, most distant black hole …
Jan 17, 2024 · The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has spotted the oldest black hole ever seen, an ancient monster with the mass of 1.6 million suns lurking 13 billion years in the universe's past.
James Webb telescope discovers the oldest active black hole in …
Jul 10, 2023 · Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have discovered a feeding supermassive black hole from when the universe was less than 600 million years old.
James Webb telescope spots 2 monster black holes merging at …
May 16, 2024 · New observations with the James Webb Space Telescope reveal the most distant pair of merging black holes ever spotted. The discovery further challenges leading theories of cosmology.