{"id":192387,"date":"2024-07-05T18:25:20","date_gmt":"2024-07-05T23:25:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/webb-captures-a-staggering-quasar-galaxy-merger-in-the-remote-universe"},"modified":"2024-07-05T18:25:20","modified_gmt":"2024-07-05T23:25:20","slug":"webb-captures-a-staggering-quasar-galaxy-merger-in-the-remote-universe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/webb-captures-a-staggering-quasar-galaxy-merger-in-the-remote-universe","title":{"rendered":"Webb captures a staggering quasar-galaxy merger in the remote universe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/webb-captures-a-staggering-quasar-galaxy-merger-in-the-remote-universe3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An international research group led by the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF) and comprising 34 research institutes and universities worldwide utilized the Near-Infrared Spectrograph (NIRSpec) on board the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to witness the dramatic interaction between a quasar inside the PJ308\u201321 system and two massive satellite galaxies in the distant universe.<\/p>\n<p>The observations, made in September 2022, unveiled unprecedented and awe-inspiring details, providing new insights into the growth of galaxies in the early universe. The results, presented July 5 during the European Astronomical Society (<a href=\"https:\/\/eas.unige.ch\/EAS2024\/\" target=\"_blank\">EAS 2024<\/a>) meeting in Padua (Italy), will be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aanda.org\/10.1051\/0004-6361\/202449239\" target=\"_blank\">published soon<\/a> in Astronomy &amp; Astrophysics.<\/p>\n<p>Observations of this quasar (already described by the same authors in <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1051\/0004-6361\/202348535\" target=\"_blank\">another study<\/a> published last May), one of the first studied with NIRSpec when the universe was less than a billion years old (redshift z = 6.2342), have revealed data of sensational quality: the instrument \u201ccaptured\u201d the quasar\u2019s spectrum with an uncertainty of less than 1% per pixel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An international research group led by the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF) and comprising 34 research institutes and universities worldwide utilized the Near-Infrared Spectrograph (NIRSpec) on board the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to witness the dramatic interaction between a quasar inside the PJ308\u201321 system and two massive satellite galaxies in the distant universe. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[219,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192387","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=192387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192387\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}