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Monitoring a black hole at the deepest point in the universe.. What’s the story?


The US space agency (NASA) announced that the “James Webb” telescope had detected a black hole at the deepest point ever observed in the universe.

According to a NASA press release, “The size of this black hole is about nine million solar masses – the solar mass is a standard unit, one of which is 333,000 times greater than the Earth’s mass.”

The black hole is located inside a very old galaxy called “CARES 1019”, which was formed 570 million years after the Big Bang, making it more than 13 billion years old.

The statement also indicated that this hole is much smaller than other black holes that also existed in the early universe and were discovered by other telescopes, some of which are more than a billion times the mass of the sun.

But the difference is that these larger holes were easier to detect because they are brighter. As for the newly discovered ones, they dimmed the light, which distinguishes the Webb telescope, which uses highly sensitive tools to detect invisible light.

This represents the relative smallness of the black hole in the center of the galaxy “KERS 1019” a puzzle for scientists, as it is not yet clear how such a small black hole was formed in the early days of the universe.

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