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Credit & Copyright: X-ray:
NASA/CXC/SAO/ökos Bogdön;
Infrared:
NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI;
Image Processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/L. Frattare & K. Arcand
Explanation:
Dominated by dark matter,
massive cluster of galaxies Abell 2744 is known to some as
Pandora's
Cluster.
It lies 3.5 billion light-years away toward the constellation Sculptor.
Using the galaxy cluster's enormous mass as a gravitational lens
to warp spacetime and magnify even more distant objects
directly behind it, astronomers
have found a background galaxy, UHZ1, at a
remarkable
redshift of
Z=10.1.
That puts UHZ1 far beyond Abell 2744,
at a distance of 13.2 billion light-years, seen when
our universe was about 3 percent of its current age.
UHZ1 is identified in
the insets
of this composited image combining X-rays (purple hues) from the
spacebased Chandra X-ray Observatory and
infrared light from the James Webb Space Telescope.
The X-ray emission from UHZ1 detected in the Chandra data is
the telltale signature of a growing supermassive black hole
at the center of the ultra high redshift galaxy.
That makes UHZ1's growing black hole the most
distant black hole ever detected in X-rays,
a result that now hints at how and when the first supermassive
black holes in the universe formed.
Image Processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/L. Frattare & K. Arcand
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Publications with keywords: cluster of galaxies - black hole
Publications with words: cluster of galaxies - black hole
See also:
- APOD: 2024 May 8 Á Visualization: A Black Hole Accretion Disk
- APOD: 2024 May 7 Á Black Hole Accreting with Jet
- APOD: 2024 May 5 Á A Black Hole Disrupts a Passing Star
- APOD: 2024 April 1 Á Swirling Magnetic Field around Our Galaxys Central Black Hole
- APOD: 2024 March 27 Á The Coma Cluster of Galaxies
- The Fornax Cluster of Galaxies
- Pandora s Cluster of Galaxies