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James Webb Telescope Discovers Oldest Known Black Hole

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The black hole is located in the GN-z11 galaxy, which is 13.4 billion light years from Earth.

A team of astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope has discovered the most distant and oldest black hole ever seen. Space.com reported it.

The black hole is located in the ancient galaxy GN-z11, which is 13.4 billion light-years away and formed 400 million years after the Big Bang.

The black hole itself is about six million times more massive than the Sun and appears to be gobbling up matter from the surrounding galaxy five times faster than current theories suggest.

It has been noted that the size of supermassive black holes, formed less than 1 billion years after the Big Bang, contradicts the modern theory of their formation, according to which the initial mass of a black hole cannot be millions or billions- billion times greater than the mass of the Sun.

Roberto Maiolino, from the Department of Physics at the University of Cambridge and head of the team of astronomers, called the discovery a “giant leap forward” in the science of black holes.

It was previously reported that scientists from Imperial College London, UK, for the first time created a black hole accretion disk in the laboratory.

Astronomers have obtained the first evidence of a rotating black hole


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