{"id":183956,"date":"2024-02-28T19:25:10","date_gmt":"2024-02-29T01:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/james-webb-space-telescope-finds-extremely-red-supermassive-black-hole-growing-in-the-early-universe"},"modified":"2024-02-28T19:25:10","modified_gmt":"2024-02-29T01:25:10","slug":"james-webb-space-telescope-finds-extremely-red-supermassive-black-hole-growing-in-the-early-universe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/james-webb-space-telescope-finds-extremely-red-supermassive-black-hole-growing-in-the-early-universe","title":{"rendered":"James Webb Space Telescope finds \u2018extremely red\u2019 supermassive black hole growing in the early universe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/james-webb-space-telescope-finds-extremely-red-supermassive-black-hole-growing-in-the-early-universe2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have discovered an \u201cextremely red\u201d supermassive black hole growing in the shadowy, early universe.<\/p>\n<p>The red hue of the supermassive black hole, seen as it was around 700 million years after the Big Bang, is the result of the <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/52-the-expanding-universe-from-the-big-bang-to-today.html\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/52-the-expanding-universe-from-the-big-bang-to-today.html\">expanding universe<\/a>. As the universe balloons outward in all directions, light traveling toward us gets \u201credshifted,\u201d and the redshifted light in this case indicates a cloak of thick gas and dust shrouding the black hole.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have discovered an \u201cextremely red\u201d supermassive black hole growing in the shadowy, early universe. The red hue of the supermassive black hole, seen as it was around 700 million years after the Big Bang, is the result of the expanding universe. As the universe balloons outward in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183956","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=183956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183956\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}