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Team identifies the universe’s earliest confirmed black hole
Team identifies the universe’s earliest confirmed black hole A team of astronomers has identified the most distant black hole ever confirmed, located 500 million years after the Big Bang, at a distance of 13.3 billion years into the past. The discovery was made using data from the James Webb Space Telescope’s CAPERS program and provides […]
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Hubble Captures an Active Galactic Center
Hubble Captures an Active Galactic Center Hubble Space Telescope captures an image of UGC 11397, a spiral galaxy with a supermassive black hole at its center. The black hole contains 174 million times the mass of our Sun and is actively growing, emitting bright X-ray light that can pierce through thick clouds of dust. UGC […]
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NASA’s Chandra Sees Surprisingly Strong Black Hole Jet at Cosmic “Noon”
NASA’s Chandra Sees Surprisingly Strong Black Hole Jet at Cosmic “Noon” NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory has detected a surprisingly strong black hole jet at cosmic “noon,” which occurred about three billion years after the universe began. The jet, located 11.6 billion light-years from Earth, was illuminated by the leftover glow from the big bang and […]
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Hubble Studies a Nearby Galaxy’s Star Formation
Hubble Studies a Nearby Galaxy’s Star Formation Explore Hubble Hubble Home Overview About Hubble The History of Hubble Hubble Timeline Why Have a Telescope in Space? Hubble by the Numbers At the Museum FAQs Impact & Benefits Hubble’s Impact & Benefits Science Impacts Cultural Impact Technology Benefits Impact on Human Spaceflight Astro Community Impacts Science […]
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