it came as a precursor to a brightly
shining supermassive black hole that was
spotted hiding in an old hubble space
telescope data even though black holes
are prevalent in the space-faring
adventures of sci-fi flicks they are
actually a relatively new find for
astronomers einstein first predicted
them when he published his theory of
general relativity in 1916 but these
so-called frozen stars weren't coined
black holes until 1967. then five years
later astronomers actually discovered
the first black hole fast forward 48
years later and scientists had finally
captured the first image of a black hole
so it's no wonder so much about these
alluring monsters remains a mystery but
you can be kept up to speed here's the
shocking details about black hole
discoveries made by the hubble telescope
and advancements of the study via the
james webb space telescope
without a doubt it's one of the biggest
lingering conundrums about the vastness
of eternal space how did supermassive
black holes grow to be so large so fast
in the early stages of the universe
ranging from millions to billions of
times the mass of the sun these titans
reside in the heart of most galaxies and
because there is a limit to how much
material they can consume in a single
gulp mathematically it should take a
really long time for them to devour
enough to grow to such epic proportions
yet how can this be astronomers have
identified supermassive black holes less
than a billion years after the big bang
this boggles the mind now a new object
hidden within one of the best studied
areas of the night sky may just hold the
missing link to the evolution of black
holes that scientists have been
searching for and the hubble telescope
along with the james webb space
telescope will shed some light on the
mystery an international team of
astronomers uncovered massive black hole
gnz7q while sifting through the archival
data from the hubble space telescope
lurking within the great observatory's
origins deep survey north goods n field
the black hole existed only some 750
million years after the big bang as
usual the great black hole sits at the
core of a dusty galaxy exploding with
star formation also known as a starburst
galaxy gabriel bremer an astronomer at
the niels bohr institute and co-author
of the study published on nature that's
analyzing the black hole was quoted
saying gnz 7q is a unique discovery that
was found just at the center of a famous
well-studied sky field showing that big
discoveries can often be hidden just in
front of you originally the concept was
only predicted by theories and
simulations the discovery marks the
first observation of a rapidly growing
black hole in the early universe such
swiftly growing black holes are thought
to be an important link between
supermassive black holes observed in
dusty starburst galaxies as well as
ultra bright quasars keep in mind that
among the most luminous objects in the
cosmos quasars are probably the most
dynamic and illuminated they are created
as the result of supermassive black
holes gorging on gas and dust the
in-falling material produces ample
radiation across the entire
electromagnetic spectrum emitting
thousands of times more light than the
entire milky way according to the best
scientific theories supermassive black
holes are born in the hearts of dusty
starburst galaxies and given enough time
they consume the surrounding shroud of
gas and dust to reveal themselves as
extremely luminous quasars currently the
inner portion of gnz 7q's accretion disk
is obscured with the outer part just
beginning to reveal itself if confirmed
that means gnz 7q is passing through an
important transitional stage of life
that's predicted by theoretical models
this is an indicator of good science the
hypothesis is being realized seiji
fujimoto lead author of the study gave
his speech during a press conference
where he was quoted saying gnz 7q
provides a direct connection between
these two rare populations and provides
a new avenue towards understanding the
rapid growth of supermassive black holes
in the early days of the universe our
discovery is a precursor of the
supermassive black holes we observe at
later epochs now there's plenty of work
for the jwst gnz 7q was found in one of
the most thoroughly studied areas of the
sky it was right there under our noses
all that time so this stems more
excitement scientists are hopeful that
there are plenty more examples out there
astronomer gabriel brammer touched on
the matter stating it's unlikely that
discovering gnz 7q within the relatively
small goods and survey area was just
dumb luck rather the prevalence of such
sources may in fact be significantly
higher than previously thought that's an
elegant way of saying the tech found it
and without it we would still be blind
with that fact being absolutely obvious
in moving forward the researchers are
more than eager to use the james webb
space telescope to more closely observe
the very early stages of the universe
and comb over any potential blind spots
that may have been previously overlooked
the recently launched james webb space
telescope promises to be powerful enough
to uncover plenty more of these objects
assuming they are as prevalent as this
finding suggests the enthusiasm also
flares as this discovery could be the
evolutionary missing link of the
formation of galaxies as the universe is
saturated with galaxies even the
weirdest things can go unnoticed for
years this was the case even after the
hubble space telescope's deep exposure
observations were taken in sort of an
intergalactic where's waldo an
international team of astronomers
uncovered in hubble archival data a
mysterious red dot nearly in the middle
of the great observatory's origins deep
survey north goods north as innocuous as
it looks it could be a rare missing link
between some of the very earliest
galaxies and the birth of supermassive
black holes the celebrated black hole
gnz 7q existed when the universe was
just a toddler only 750 million years
after the big bang astronomers
understand that the mixture of radiation
from the object cannot be attributed to
star formation alone the best
explanation is that it is a growing
black hole shrouded in dust eventually
the black hole will emerge from its
dusty cocoon as a brilliant quasar and
pulse its intense beacon of light as the
heart of an early galaxy the pioneering
hubble telescope has provided a unique
target for nasa's james webb space
telescope to use its spectroscopic
instruments to study objects like gnz 7q
in detail which should render
unprecedented images and data it's now
one of the most outstanding mysteries in
astronomy how did supermassive black
holes weighing millions to billions of
times the mass of the sun get to be so
huge so fast as touched upon earlier
current theories predict that
supermassive black holes begin their
lives in the dust shrouded cores of
vigorously star-forming starburst
galaxies before expelling the
surrounding gas and dust and emerging as
extremely luminous quasars although it's
extremely rare both these dusty
starburst galaxies and luminous quasars
have already been detected in the early
universe the team that published the
study believes that gnz 7q could surely
be a missing link between these two
classes of objects gnz 7q has exactly
both aspects of the dusty starburst
galaxy and the quasar where the quasar
light shows the dust red in color also
gnz7q lacks various features that are
usually observed in typical very
luminous quasars corresponding to the
emission from the accretion disk of the
supermassive black hole this more than
likely explains why the likely
explanation that the central black hole
in gn7q is still in a young and less
massive face these properties perfectly
match with the young transition phase
quasar that has been predicted in
simulations but never identified at
similarly high redshift universe as the
very luminous quasar so far identified
up to a redshift of 7.6 remember a red
shift is a displacement of the spectrum
of an astronomical object toward longer
red wavelengths as you can connect the
dots in 1929 the american astronomer
edwin powell hubble reported that the
distant galaxies were receding from the
milky way system and that their red
shifts increased proportionately with
their increasing distance he was one of
the first people to understand that the
universe was expanding he was such an
influence nasa named one of their best
space telescopes after him as the
britannica would describe it the
generalization for the basis of
redshifts became known as hubble's law
which correlates the recessional
velocity of a galaxy with its distance
from earth that simply means the greater
the redshift manifested by light
emanating from an object the greater the
distance of the object and the larger
its recessional velocity this law of
redshifts has been confirmed by
subsequent research and provides the
cornerstone of modern relativistic
cosmological theories that postulate
that the universe is indeed expanding so
by applying hubble's law to the
redshifts of quasars scientists can
learn a great deal about the light
emitting from the center of galaxies in
the upcoming months the hubble and its
newer counterpart the james webb space
telescope are due to reveal more answers
and questions for the untold mysteries
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