The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) of NASA’s Aerospace Agency has identified an active supermassive black hole that is exceptionally large and positioned at the greatest distance from Earth ever recorded.
The black hole is located at the center of the CEERS 1019 galaxy.
According to the announcement made on July 6th, NASA revealed that this black hole resides at the center of the CEERS 1019 galaxy, which formed over 570 million years after the Big Bang.
This massive active black hole not only stands out in terms of age and distance from Earth but also in its weight, being only 9 million times the mass of the Sun.
This deviation is significantly smaller compared to the norm, as most supermassive black holes in the early universe weigh over a billion times the mass of the Sun, making them brighter and easier to detect.
Additionally, the JWST discovered 11 galaxies that formed when the universe was 470-675 million years old.
NASA states that the black hole in the CEERS 1019 galaxy shares similarities with the central black hole of the Milky Way, which has a mass 4.6 million times that of the Sun. Unlike previously discovered large black holes, this black hole does not emit as much light.
According to NASA, although smaller in size, this black hole appeared much earlier, indicating that its existence shortly after the formation of the universe remains a mystery.