A team of researchers has used the James Webb Space Telescope to uncover the most distant active supermassive black hole seen to date, as well as other finds.
Theoretical physicist Dr. Michio Kaku explains the significance of new images provided by NASA's Webb Space Telescope on 'Sunday Night in America.'The black hole is located in the galaxy CEERS 1019.
"Researchers have long known that there must be lower mass black holes in the early universe. Webb is the first observatory that can capture them so clearly," team member Dale Kocevski, of Colby College, explained in a release."Now we think that lower mass black holes might be all over the place, waiting to be discovered."
The program, Webb's Cosmic Evolution Early Release Science Survey that is led by Steven Finkelstein of the University of Texas at Austin, combines its near- and mid-infrared images and data – spectra – to make these discoveries. Furthermore, while it has been long known that smaller black holes must have existed earlier in the universe, there were not definitive detections until Webb began making observations. NASA noted that this black hole existed so much earlier that it is still difficult to explain how it formed so soon after the universe began.
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