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“Now, for the first time, astronomers may have spotted an extremely distant galaxy with a whopping three supermassive black holes.”
“They were hoping to find galaxies from the early universe that contained two black holes, reports Amanda Schupak at the New York Times .”
“To understand how the latter may have happened soon after the Big Bang some 13.8 billion years ago, the team pointed JWST toward a galaxy called J0148-4214.”
“Hannah Übler At the center of almost every large galaxy lies a behemoth: a supermassive black hole.”
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“In a First, Astronomers May Have Spotted a Galaxy in the Early Universe With Three Behemoth Black Holes The galaxy’s light took about 12.5 billion years to reach the James Webb Space Telescope, meaning the instrument saw the black holes a little more than one billion years after the Big Bang.”
“Identified as an extremely distant object in a previous survey, it’s so far from us that its light took about 12.5 billion years to reach the telescope, meaning the researchers were observing what the galaxy looked like around the dawn of the cosmos.”
“The discovery offers new clues about how these strange celestial objects grow, particularly how they did it in the ancient cosmos.”
““This system is in the very, very early universe,” says Dougal Dobie , an astrophysicist at the University of Sydney in Australia who wasn’t involved in the study, to James Woodford at New Scientist .”
“Fun fact: Other strange black hole sightings In July, researchers reported seeing a supermassive black hole more than 30,000 light-years from its host galaxy’s core , offering long-awaited evidence of a “wandering” black hole.”
“Scientists suspect that black holes typically slowly gain mass by consuming gas, but they can sometimes quickly balloon by merging with one another.”
“A technique for measuring distances helped the team determine that the galaxy’s heart held two black holes merely 620 light-years apart, which might combine within a few hundred million years.”