Webb Detects Most Distant Active Supermassive Black Hole to Date
Jul 6, 2023 · Researchers have discovered the most distant active supermassive black hole to date with the James Webb Space Telescope. The galaxy, CEERS 1019, existed just over 570 million years after the big bang, and its black hole is less massive than any other yet identified in the early universe.
NASA Telescopes Discover Record-Breaking Black Hole
Nov 6, 2023 · By combining data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, a team of researchers was able to find the telltale signature of a growing black hole just 470 million years after the big bang.
James Webb Space Telescope discovers oldest and most distant black hole …
Jan 17, 2024 · The James Webb Space Telescope has spotted the oldest and most distant black hole ever seen. The discovery could explain how supermassive black holes grew so quickly.
Newfound Galaxy Class May Indicate Early Black Hole Growth, Webb …
Jan 14, 2025 · The James Webb Space Telescope is the world’s premier space science observatory. Webb is solving mysteries in our solar system, looking beyond to distant worlds around other stars, and probing the mysterious structures …
James Webb Space Telescope spots most distant and oldest black hole …
May 16, 2024 · The James Webb Space Telescope has detected a merger between two supermassive black holes so distant it proceeded just 740 million years after the Big Bang.
James Webb Telescope detects earliest known black hole - NPR
Jan 17, 2024 · Data from the James Webb Space Telescope indicate that a galaxy known as GN-z11 has a supermassive black hole at its center — one that's far more massive than astronomers expected.
NASA’s Webb Sheds Light on Galaxy Evolution, Black Holes
Jul 12, 2022 · The new image of galaxy group "Stephan's Quintet" from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope shows in rare detail how interacting galaxies trigger star formation in each other and how gas in galaxies is being disturbed. The image also shows outflows driven by a black hole in Stephan’s Quintet in a level of detail never seen before.
Supermassive black holes in 'little red dot' galaxies are 1,000 …
4 days ago · "Little red dot" galaxies discovered by the James Webb Space Telescope in the early cosmos appear to be ruled by supermassive black holes that are 1,000 times too massive.
James Webb telescope discovers the oldest, most distant black hole …
Jan 17, 2024 · The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has spotted the oldest black hole ever seen, an ancient monster with the mass of 1.6 million suns lurking 13 billion years in the universe's past.
Supermassive black hole is most distant ever found, as Webb telescope ...
Mar 5, 2024 · Two teams of researchers studying a galaxy through NASA's James Webb Space Telescope have made multiple discoveries, including spotting the most distant active supermassive black hole ever...