The JWST Has Spotted Giant Black Holes All Over the Early Universe
Giant black holes were supposed to be bit players in the early cosmic story. But James Webb Space Telescope observations are finding an unexpected abundance of the beasts.
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Giant black holes were supposed to be bit players in the early cosmic story. But James Webb Space Telescope observations are finding an unexpected abundance of the beasts.
In the six decades since their discovery, astronomers have come to understand they are powered by black holes at the centers of galaxies.
Astronomers have used the James Webb Space Telescope to discover a 3 million light-year-long strand of galaxies that formed just 830 million years after the big bang. The filament is one of the earliest structures of the cosmic web, the network of galaxies that fills the universe. https://youtu.be/9MwJ5_MExu0 Galaxies are not scattered randomly across the…
The James Webb Space Telescope spotted a long, narrow filament of ten galaxies that existed 830 million years after the Big Bang.
The James Webb Space Telescope spotted a long, narrow filament of ten galaxies that existed 830 million years after the Big Bang.