{"id":189816,"date":"2024-05-21T05:23:20","date_gmt":"2024-05-21T10:23:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/jwst-spots-most-distant-black-hole-merger-yet"},"modified":"2024-05-21T05:23:20","modified_gmt":"2024-05-21T10:23:20","slug":"jwst-spots-most-distant-black-hole-merger-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/jwst-spots-most-distant-black-hole-merger-yet","title":{"rendered":"JWST Spots Most Distant Black Hole Merger Yet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GofclBvweoQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>From 13 billion light-years across the gulf of space and time, we\u2019ve just caught a glimpse of the most distant <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/black-holes\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">black hole<\/a> merger discovered yet.<\/p>\n<p>Using <a href=\"https:\/\/webb.nasa.gov\/\">JWST<\/a>, an international team of astronomers has discovered two supermassive <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/black-holes\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">black holes<\/a>, and their attendant galaxies, coming together in a colossal cosmic collision, just 740 million years after the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/big-bang\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">Big Bang<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This discovery could be a clue that helps us piece together where supermassive black holes came from, and how they grew so large, so early in the history of the Universe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From 13 billion light-years across the gulf of space and time, we\u2019ve just caught a glimpse of the most distant black hole merger discovered yet. Using JWST, an international team of astronomers has discovered two supermassive black holes, and their attendant galaxies, coming together in a colossal cosmic collision, just 740 million years after the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189816","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189816\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}