Telescopes spot the oldest and most distant black hole formed after the big bangĪ light-year, equivalent to 5.88 trillion miles, is how far a beam of light travels in a year. NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI/CXC/SAO/Ákos Bogdán/L. These images show the galaxy cluster Abell 2744 that UHZ1 is located behind, in X-rays from Chandra and infrared data from Webb, as well as close-ups of the black hole host galaxy UHZ1. This result may explain how some of the first supermassive black holes in the universe formed. X-ray emission is a telltale signature of a growing supermassive black hole.
Astronomers found the most distant black hole ever detected in X-rays (in a galaxy dubbed UHZ1) using the Chandra and Webb space telescopes.
