{"id":167017,"date":"2023-07-06T15:25:14","date_gmt":"2023-07-06T20:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/the-earliest-supermassive-black-hole-ever-found-has-been-identified"},"modified":"2023-07-06T15:25:14","modified_gmt":"2023-07-06T20:25:14","slug":"the-earliest-supermassive-black-hole-ever-found-has-been-identified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/the-earliest-supermassive-black-hole-ever-found-has-been-identified","title":{"rendered":"The Earliest Supermassive Black Hole Ever Found Has Been Identified"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SXN4hpv977s?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>An object lurking in the foggy dawn of the Universe has given astronomers a big surprise.<\/p>\n<p>Observations collected through the James Webb Space Telescope have revealed an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/weve-just-seen-a-black-hole-dramatically-flare-to-life-in-the-far-reaches-of-space\">active supermassive black hole<\/a> 9 million times the mass of the Sun \u2013 one that is actively growing as it slurps up matter from the space around it.<\/p>\n<p>At around just 570 million years after the Big Bang, this is the earliest growing supermassive black hole detected yet, although scientists are hoping it won\u2019t remain the record-holder for long.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An object lurking in the foggy dawn of the Universe has given astronomers a big surprise. Observations collected through the James Webb Space Telescope have revealed an active supermassive black hole 9 million times the mass of the Sun \u2013 one that is actively growing as it slurps up matter from the space around it. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":579,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-167017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/579"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167017\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}