{"id":183991,"date":"2024-02-29T09:24:21","date_gmt":"2024-02-29T15:24:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/james-webb-spots-extremely-red-black-hole"},"modified":"2024-02-29T09:24:21","modified_gmt":"2024-02-29T15:24:21","slug":"james-webb-spots-extremely-red-black-hole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/james-webb-spots-extremely-red-black-hole","title":{"rendered":"James Webb Spots \u201cExtremely Red\u201d Black Hole"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/james-webb-spots-extremely-red-black-hole2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>NASA\u2019s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has spotted a rare and \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/news-releases\/1035599\" class=\"\">extremely red<\/a>\u201d supermassive black hole lurking in one of the most ancient corners of the universe.<\/p>\n<p>Astronomers suggest the vermilion black hole was the result of an expanding universe just 700 million years following the Big Bang, as detailed in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41586-024-07184-8\" class=\"\">paper<\/a> published this month in the journal <em>Nature. <\/em>Its colors are likely due to a thick layer of dust blocking much of its light, they posit.<\/p>\n<p>While the cosmic monster was technically <a href=\"https:\/\/iopscience.iop.org\/article\/10.3847\/1538-4357\/acdc9d\" class=\"\">first discovered<\/a> last year, researchers have now found that it\u2019s far more massive than any other object of its kind in the area, making it a highly unusual find that could rewrite the way we understand how supermassive black holes grow relative to their host galaxies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA\u2019s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has spotted a rare and \u201cextremely red\u201d supermassive black hole lurking in one of the most ancient corners of the universe. Astronomers suggest the vermilion black hole was the result of an expanding universe just 700 million years following the Big Bang, as detailed in a paper published this [\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-183991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183991","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=183991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183991\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}