Astronomers Discover Most Distant and Oldest Black Hole

Astronomers Discover Most Distant and Oldest Black Hole By Using JWST

January 19, 2024 1:33 AM EST Dr. Swapnil Surwase

A team of astronomers discovered Universe's most distant and oldest black hole.

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Astronomers used James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to detect farthest blackhole.

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This findings might offer a innovation in understanding just how supermassive black holes attained massive sizes.

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This blackhole present in the galaxy GN-z11, which is 13.4 billion light years away from Earth.

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This black hole is about 6 million times larger than the our solar system Sun.

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And it consume matter from its surrounding galaxy at a rate 5 times more than what current concepts suggests.

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It looks like, formed only 400 millions years after the big bang.

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