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Astronomers discover oldest black hole — and it’s much larger than it should be

byJordan Strickler

January 19, 2024

The discovery might up-end how scientists believe black holes form.

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image shows the massive galaxy cluster MACSJ 1206. Embedded within the cluster are the distorted images of distant background galaxies, seen as arcs and smeared features. These distortions are caused by the dark matter in the cluster, whose gravity bends and magnifies the light from faraway galaxies, an effect called gravitational lensing. This phenomenon allows astronomers to study remote galaxies that would otherwise be too faint to see. (NASA, ESA, G. Caminha (University of Groningen), M. Meneghetti (Observatory of Astrophysics and Space Science of Bologna), P. Natarajan (Yale University), the CLASH team, and M. Kornmesser (ESA/Hubble))

Could this be the oldest galaxy in the universe?

byJordan Strickler

December 23, 2020 - Updated on December 24, 2020

If galaxies were human, GN-z11 would want you to get off its lawn.

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