ScienceQuiet 13d · day 13
JWST and ALMA detect rapidly growing black hole in infant universe
Observations reveal a dust-reddened quasar with a 1.1-billion-solar-mass black hole when the universe was less than a billion years old.
What to know
- JWST and ALMA jointly observed a dust-reddened quasar (J1440+0019) from when the universe was less than a billion years old.
- The quasar hosts a rapidly accreting supermassive black hole with a mass of about 1.1 billion suns at redshift 6.5488.
- The discovery provides new evidence about how supermassive black holes grew so quickly in the early universe.
“A new study reveals a dust-reddened quasar from a time when the universe was less than a billion years old. Located at a redshift of 6.5488, the object J1440+0019 contains a rapidly accreting supermassive black hole with a mass of about 1.1 billion suns.”
Phys.org · Phys.org ↗ · Oct 25
JWST (James Webb Space Telescope) Observational instrumentALMA (Atacama Large Millimeter Array) Observational instrument
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