{"id":184704,"date":"2024-03-09T02:57:53","date_gmt":"2024-03-09T08:57:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/supermassive-black-hole-is-most-distant-ever-found-as-webb-telescope-unlocks-secrets-of-far-away-galaxy"},"modified":"2024-03-09T02:57:53","modified_gmt":"2024-03-09T08:57:53","slug":"supermassive-black-hole-is-most-distant-ever-found-as-webb-telescope-unlocks-secrets-of-far-away-galaxy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/supermassive-black-hole-is-most-distant-ever-found-as-webb-telescope-unlocks-secrets-of-far-away-galaxy","title":{"rendered":"Supermassive black hole is most distant ever found, as Webb telescope \u201cunlocks secrets\u201d of far-away galaxy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/supermassive-black-hole-is-most-distant-ever-found-as-webb-telescope-unlocks-secrets-of-far-away-galaxy2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Two teams of researchers studying a galaxy through NASA\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/the-james-webb-space-telescopes-continued-gifts\/\" target=\"_blank\">James Webb Space Telescope<\/a> have made multiple discoveries, including spotting the most distant active supermassive black hole ever found.<\/p>\n<p>The teams were studying a galaxy known as GN-z11, an \u201cexceptionally luminous\u201d system that was formed when our 13.8 billion-year-old universe was only about 430 million years old, making it one of the youngest ever observed, NASA <a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/missions\/webb\/webb-unlocks-secrets-of-one-of-the-most-distant-galaxies-ever-seen\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">said in a news release<\/a>. Scientists have been trying to find out what makes the distant galaxy so bright, and in doing so discovered the far-off <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/oldest-black-hole-found-behemoth-470-million-years-after-big-bang\/\" target=\"_blank\">black hole<\/a> and a gas clump that could indicate rare stars.<\/p>\n<p>The black hole was found by researchers from the Cavendish Laboratory and the Kavli Institute of Cosmology at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom using the telescope\u2019s near-infrared camera. They determined the structure was a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/supermassive-black-hole-sharpest-image-transformation-fuzzy-orange-donut\/\" target=\"_blank\">supermassive black hole<\/a>, the largest type of black hole. It\u2019s the most distant black hole of this size ever seen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two teams of researchers studying a galaxy through NASA\u2019s James Webb Space Telescope have made multiple discoveries, including spotting the most distant active supermassive black hole ever found. The teams were studying a galaxy known as GN-z11, an \u201cexceptionally luminous\u201d system that was formed when our 13.8 billion-year-old universe was only about 430 million years [\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-184704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184704","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=184704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184704\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}