{"id":176012,"date":"2023-11-14T09:23:15","date_gmt":"2023-11-14T15:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/princeton-astrophysicist-helps-find-record-smashing-black-hole-born-in-the-universes-infancy"},"modified":"2023-11-14T09:23:15","modified_gmt":"2023-11-14T15:23:15","slug":"princeton-astrophysicist-helps-find-record-smashing-black-hole-born-in-the-universes-infancy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/princeton-astrophysicist-helps-find-record-smashing-black-hole-born-in-the-universes-infancy","title":{"rendered":"Princeton astrophysicist helps find record-smashing black hole born in the universe\u2019s infancy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/princeton-astrophysicist-helps-find-record-smashing-black-hole-born-in-the-universes-infancy2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An international team of astrophysicists including Princeton\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/web.astro.princeton.edu\/people\/andy-goulding\"> Andy Goulding<\/a> has discovered the most distant supermassive black hole ever found, using two NASA space telescopes: the Chandra X-ray Observatory (Chandra) and the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST).<\/p>\n<p>The black hole, which is an estimated 10 to 100 million times more massive than our sun, is 13.2 billion light-years away in the galaxy UHZ-1, which means the telescopes are peering back in time to when the universe was \u201cextremely young,\u201d Goulding said \u2014 only about 450 million years old.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is one of the most dramatic discoveries to come out of the James Webb Space Telescope\u201d and the discovery of the most distant growing supermassive black hole known, said <a href=\"https:\/\/web.astro.princeton.edu\/people\/michael-strauss\"> Michael Strauss<\/a>, professor and chair of astrophysical sciences at Princeton, who discussed the findings with the researchers but was not part of the research team. \u201cIndeed, it completely smashes the old record.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An international team of astrophysicists including Princeton\u2019s Andy Goulding has discovered the most distant supermassive black hole ever found, using two NASA space telescopes: the Chandra X-ray Observatory (Chandra) and the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). The black hole, which is an estimated 10 to 100 million times more massive than our sun, is 13.2 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-176012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176012","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176012\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}