In this diagram, a disk of hot gas swirls around a black hole. The streams of gas are the remains of stars that have been pulled apart by black holes. The cloud of hot plasma above a black hole is known as the corona. (NASA/JPL-Caltech)
(NewsNation) — NASA Scientist discovered The oldest black hole in history. It is located in a galaxy that is more than 13 billion years old and could help solve cosmic mysteries linking supermassive black holes to the beginning of the universe.
Investigation resultA paper published Monday in the journal Nature Astronomy confirms that supermassive black holes were once just a theory that existed at the beginning of the universe. NASA’s james webb space telescope The Chandra X-ray Observatory and the Chandra X-ray Observatory collaborated last year on this discovery.
It is generally thought that there are two Types of black holes: Stellar mass and supermassive mass. Stellar-mass black holes are estimated to weigh five to ten times the mass of the Sun, while supermassive black holes weigh hundreds of thousands to billions of times the mass of the Sun.
The newly discovered black hole was discovered in a galaxy named UHZ1, and its mass is approximately the same as the entire galaxy in which it resides.
The report also shows that black holes formed just 470 million years after the Big Bang, suggesting that they were supermassive to begin with, rather than forming gradually. .
“There are physical limits to how quickly black holes can grow once they form, but larger black holes have a head start. It’s like planting a sapling, starting with just a seed. “They grow into full-sized trees in less time than they would otherwise,” said study co-author Dr. Andy Golding.
Two space telescopes, Webb and Chandra, used a technique called gravitational lensing to enlarge the region of space where this galaxy, UHZ1, and its black hole reside.
The telescope used light from a much closer galaxy cluster, just 3.2 billion light-years from Earth, to magnify the distant UHZ1 and its black hole.
Scientists plan to use the results and additional data from the Webb telescope to reveal a clearer picture of the early universe.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.