{"id":178534,"date":"2023-12-17T20:24:18","date_gmt":"2023-12-18T02:24:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/james-webb-telescope-discovers-oldest-black-hole-in-the-universe"},"modified":"2023-12-17T20:24:18","modified_gmt":"2023-12-18T02:24:18","slug":"james-webb-telescope-discovers-oldest-black-hole-in-the-universe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/james-webb-telescope-discovers-oldest-black-hole-in-the-universe","title":{"rendered":"James Webb telescope discovers oldest black hole in the universe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/james-webb-telescope-discovers-oldest-black-hole-in-the-universe.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has spotted the oldest black hole ever seen, an ancient monster with the mass of 1.6 million suns lurking 13 billion years in the universe\u2019s past.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/james-webb-space-telescope\" rel=\"nofollow\"> James Webb Space Telescope<\/a>, whose cameras enable it to look back in time to our universe\u2019s beginnings, spotted the supermassive black hole at the center of the infant galaxy GN-z11 just 440 million years after the universe began.<\/p>\n<p>And the space-time rupture isn\u2019t alone, it\u2019s one of countless <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/black-holes.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"> black holes<\/a> that gorged themselves to terrifying scales during the cosmic dawn \u2014 the period about 100 million years after the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/65700-big-bang-theory.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"> Big Bang<\/a> when the young universe began glowing for a billion years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has spotted the oldest black hole ever seen, an ancient monster with the mass of 1.6 million suns lurking 13 billion years in the universe\u2019s past. The James Webb Space Telescope, whose cameras enable it to look back in time to our universe\u2019s beginnings, spotted the supermassive black hole [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-178534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178534","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178534\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}