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Wed Mar 6, 2024, 04:56 AM
Mar 2024
https://www.jwst.nasa.gov/
03/04/2024 : Webb Unlocks Secrets of One of the Most Distant Galaxies Ever Seen ❱

Looking deeply into space and time, two teams using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have studied the exceptionally luminous galaxy GN-z11, which existed when our 13.8 billion-year-old universe was only about 430 million years old.

Initially detected with NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, this galaxy — one of the youngest and most distant ever observed — is so bright that it is challenging scientists to understand why. Now, GN-z11 is giving up some of its secrets.

A team studying GN-z11 with Webb found the first clear evidence that the galaxy is hosting a central, supermassive black hole that is rapidly accreting matter. Their finding makes this the farthest active supermassive black hole spotted to date.
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Look at that - over 13 billion years ago. Always with the old stuff. Big telescope ought to show us the newest and shiniest!

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