August 10, 2026
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- Scientists have discovered a black hole that is 10 times larger than the one in our Milky Way galaxy and also the oldest one.
- Black holes are very dense objects with such intense gravity that even light cannot escape, if it strays too close.
- They are formed when massive stars die or there is a direct collapse of gases.
- The new black hole is a record breaker: the most distant yet observed in X-rays.
- These new findings confirmed the claims that there were super-massive black holes existed at the dawn of the universe.
| Gravitational Lensing occurs when massive objects distort and magnify light from objects behind them, acting as cosmic telescopes and making distant galaxies appear brighter. |
- NASA’s James Webb Telescope and Chandra X-Ray Observatory teamed up over the past year to make the observations.
- They used a technique called gravitational lensing to magnify the region of space where this galaxy, UHZ1, and its black hole are located.
- The age of this black hole can be estimated to be around 13.2 billion years, considering the universe’s age to be 13.7 billion years.
- Thus it dates back to 470 million years after the Big Bang.
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