astronomers have identified a rapidly growing black hole in the early universe that is
considered a crucial missing link between young star-forming galaxies and the first supermassive
black holes they used data from nasa's hubble space telescope to make this discovery
until now the monster nicknamed GNz7q had been lurking unnoticed in one of the best
studied areas of the night sky archival hubble data from hubble's advanced camera for surveys
helped the team determine that GNz7q existed just 750 million years after the big bang hubble found
a compact source of ultraviolet and infrared light this couldn't be caused by emission from galaxies
but is consistent with the radiation expected from materials that are falling onto a black hole
rapidly growing black holes in dusty early star-forming galaxies are predicted by theories
and computer simulations but had not been observed until now our analysis suggests that gnz-7q is the
first example of a rapidly growing black hole in the dusty core of a starburst galaxy at an epoch
close to the earliest supermassive black hole known in the universe explained seiji fujimoto
an astronomer at the niels boa institute the object's properties across the electromagnetic
spectrum are in excellent agreement with predictions from theoretical simulations
one of the outstanding mysteries in astronomy today is how did supermassive black holes
weighing millions to billions of times the mass of the sun get to be so huge so fast
current theories predict that supermassive black holes begin their lives in the dust shrouded cause
of vigorously star-forming starburst galaxies before expelling the surrounding gas and dust
and emerging as extremely luminous quasars while extremely rare both these dusty starburst galaxies
and luminous quasars have been detected in the early universe the team believes that gnz7q could
be a missing link between these two classes of objects gnz7q has exactly both aspects of
the dusty starburst galaxy and the quasar where the quasar light shows the dust reddened color
gnz 7q's host galaxy is forming stars at the rate of 1 600 solar masses per year and gnz 7q itself
appears bright at uv wavelengths but very faint at x-ray wavelengths this tells us that gnz 7q
is a rapidly growing black hole still obscured by the dusty core of its star-forming host galaxy wow
well done hubble now we patiently wait for the james webb space telescope to take hubble's work
even further what do you guys have to say drop in your comments to let us know on december 25th
2021 nasa's james webb space telescope was launched on a mission to study the earliest stars
and peak further back into the universe's history than ever before webb currently is orbiting in the
lagrange point too nearly 1 million miles from our planet and is the world's largest and most
powerful space telescope about three weeks ago the jwst took its first image of a bright single star
right after its mirrors were fully aligned the webb telescope captured an image of a star which
is located about two thousand light years from earth the galaxies in the backdrop of the webb
telescope alignment image are most likely millions of light years away way beyond the milky way
this image was proof that the jwst will unravel the mysteries of the universe with its advanced
infrared technology what if we told you that apart from the star and the multiple
galaxies captured by the web telescope there was something else in that image that everyone missed
the jwst accidentally captured a moving black hole
that's correct this state-of-the-art telescope unintentionally spotted a moving black hole
that is estimated to be millions of light years away from us we have very little information on
black holes and this image might help us learn a lot more about these mysterious voids in space
some of the oddest and most fascinating objects in space are black holes
they're extraordinarily dense and their gravitational attraction is so powerful
that even light cannot escape their grasp if it gets close enough
space telescopes like the jwst equipped with specialized equipment can aid in the discovery
of black holes their special instruments can see how stars in close proximity to black holes
behave differently from other stars understanding the origins of the universe determining the
habitability of exoplanets and determining the impact of unexplained dark matter on the cosmos
are among the issues on the observatory's science agenda and the jwst did just that
this image has got scientists all over the world very excited and at the same time
confused some of them even think that these things might not be black holes but wormholes
but us we are just super excited mankind has never been able to spot a wormhole before
and if this thing turns out to be one it'll be a new dawn in the field of astronomy
what do you guys have to say drop in your comments to let us know