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Please deactivate your ad blocker in order to see our subscription offerThis radio image shows two jets shooting out of the center of Cygnus A, a galaxy not too far from our own.
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As the universe cooled in the era after the Big Bang, a supermassive black hole had already formed in the center of a galaxy, forming a giant engine of energy we can still see today. Even older examples could be discovered, scientists said.
It is part of a quasar from just 690 million years after the Big Bang.Artist’s conception of the discovery of the most-distant quasar known. NY 10036.
Please refresh the page and try again.Live Science is part of Future US Inc, an international media group and leading digital publisher. “With several next-generation, even-more-sensitive facilities currently being built, we can expect many exciting discoveries in the very early universe in the coming years.”An artist's conception shows the most distant supermassive black hole ever discovered. It is surrounded by neutral hydrogen, indicating that it is from the period called the epoch of reionization, when the universe's first light sources turned on.Robin Dienel, courtesy of the Carnegie Institution for Science "This is a very exciting discovery," he said.
© It's much more likely that there were many such blazars pointing in all sorts of directions, and that one of them happened to throw its light our way.These blazars, the authors wrote, were the seeds of the supermassive black holes that dominate the cores of large galaxies across our universe today — including "Observing a blazar is extremely important. The most distant and oldest supermassive black hole ever seen has been discovered, astronomers announced in a study published this week .The black hole resides in a quasar and its light reaches us from when the universe was only 5% of its current age — over 13 billion years ago, or "just" 690 million years after the Big Bang.Quasars are among the brightest and most-distant known celestial objects and are crucial to understanding the early universe, said study co-author Bram Venemans of the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Germany. The discovery was found by scouring the new generation of wide-area, sensitive surveys astronomers are conducting using NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer in orbit and ground-based telescopes in Chile and Hawaii, Stern said. It’s a black hole. If only one blazar existed in this early phase of the universe, it would be an extraordinarily lucky break for it to have pointed its narrow, visible beam at Earth. The universe was just not old enough to make a black hole that big.