Scientists have discovered the most distant supermassive black hole ever detected using X-rays thanks to Chandra and Webb.
This image contains the most distant black hole ever detected in X-rays and utilizes data collected by the Chandra X-ray Observatory and the James Webb Space Telescope. | Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO/Ákos Bogdán; Infrared: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI; Image Processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/L. Frattare & K. Arcand
UHZ1 is located in the direction of the galaxy cluster Abell 2744 and is 3.5 billion light-years from Earth. However, thanks to Webb’s extreme resolving capabilities, scientists have determined that while in the same direction as Abell 2744, UHZ1 is much further away, 13.2 billion light-years away. The light arriving from UHZ1 is from when the universe was only about 3% of its current age.
“Do they form directly from the collapse of massive clouds of gas, creating black holes weighing between about 10,000 and 100,000 Suns? Or do they come from explosions of the first stars that create black holes weighing only between about 10 and 100 Suns?”
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