For out

Far out:

Our @NASAChandraXray and @NASAWebb telescopes joined forces to capture the most distant black hole yet seen in X-rays. This black hole lies 13.2 billion light-years from Earth. This means we're viewing it 470 million years after the big bang, when the universe was only 3% of its present age.⁣

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The data show that this black hole was born massive – with an estimated mass falling between 10 and 100 million Suns. This result suggests that some of the first supermassive black holes in the universe formed from huge clouds of gas.⁣

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Image descriptions:⁣

1) The composite image shows data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and James Webb Space Telescope. Tiny white, purple, and red celestial objects densely dot a sea of black space. A neon purple X-ray gas cloud washes over the center.⁣

2) The second image is the same as the first, but just to the right of the image's center is a small square that highlights the ancient black hole. In the top left corner of the image lies two zoomed-in views of this black hole as seen by the Chandra X-ray Observatory and the James Webb Space Telescope. ⁣

Credits: X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO/Ákos Bogdán; Infrared: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI; Image Processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/L. Frattare & K. Arcand⁣

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07 November  2023