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NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has detected a unique and “intensely red” supermassive black hole hidden in one of the oldest part of the universe.
Scientists proposed the reddish black hole was the outcome of an enlarged universe just 700 million years following the Big Bang, as given in a paper published this month in the journal Nature. Its colors are because of a solid layer of dust compressing a lot of its light, they said.
Whereas for the first time the cosmic monster was technically invented last year, astronomers have now spotted that it is much more massive than anything else of its type in the field, making it strange discovery that could rescript the way we think how supermassive black holes increase relative to their host galaxies.
The team observed the data collected by the James Webb that inspected a group of faraway galaxies in the middle core of Pandora’s Cluster, also called Abell 2744, some 4 billion light-years away from Earth.
Credits to gravitational lensing, an result occur by massive objects bending the surrounding spacetime, Scientists were capable to receive a complete look at even too far galaxies behind it.
“We were very curious when JWST begin conveying its first data,” said co-lead and Ben-Gurion University postdoctoral researcher Lukas Furtak in a statement, recalling coming across “three very dense yet red-blooming objects” that “exquisitely stood out and caught our eyes.”
Credits to their presence, Furtak and his companions came to the conclusion that the three objects — which emerged to be pictures of the same source — had to be a “quasar-like object.” Quasars are galactic cores that generates a lot of electromagnetic radiation produced by a supermassive black hole in its mid raised by nearby gas and dust.
“Analysis of the object’s colors showed that it was not a typical star-making galaxy,” said program co-lead and University of Pittsburgh observational scientist Rachel Bezanson in the statement. “Together with its solid size, it became obvious that is expected to be a supermassive black hole, though it still differs from other quasars discovered earlier.”
Appreciation to proper evaluation of the object’s redshift, the size of the wavelength of light expand to how quick a celestial object is moving compared to us, the team can also to recognize its mass.
As per those evaluations, it’s highly massive, potentially stuffing a sizable amount of the mass of its host galaxy into a a small area, putting some interesting questions as to how the increase of black holes and their host galaxies are connected.
“In a way, it’s the astrophysical similar to the chicken and egg problem,” said co-lead and Ben-Gurion University professor Adi Zitrin in the statement. “We still can’t find which came first — the galaxy or black hole, how massive the first black holes were, and how they grew.”
