Astronomers Find a 200,000-Light-Year Black Hole Jet in the Early Universe

Astronomers Find a 200,000-Light-Year Black Hole Jet in the Early Universe

Astronomers have detected the longest black hole-driven jet observed in the early universe, stretching at least 200,000 light-years—twice the width of the Milky Way. The discovery was made in a quasar identified as J1601+3102, which existed when the universe was only 1.2 billion years old. Despite the immense size of its jet, the supermassive black … Read more

JWST Finds Giant Black Hole With Half the Mass of Its Surrounding Galaxy

JWST Finds Giant Black Hole With Half the Mass of Its Surrounding Galaxy

A team of astronomers has made an important discovery by identifying an unusually large black hole within one of the universe’s most distant quasars. This black hole, at the heart of the quasar ULAS J1120+0641 in the constellation Leo, is 1.4 billion times the mass of the Sun. In a surprising twist, it is almost … Read more