James Webb Space Telescope finds a wild black hole growth spurt in galaxies at 'cosmic noon'

James Webb Space Telescope finds a wild black hole growth spurt in galaxies at 'cosmic noon'

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have peered into galaxies that existed at cosmic noon to hunt ravenously feeding black holes and bursts of starbirth.

Scientists Ask For Help Classifying Galaxies From the Cosmic Noon

Data from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is coming in hot and heavy at this point, with various data streams from multiple instruments being reported in various papers. One exciting one will be released shortly in the Astrophysical Journal from researchers at the University of Kansas (KU), where researchers collected mid-infrared images of a part of the sky that holds galaxies from the time of the "cosmic noon" about 10 billion years ago.…

TITLE: “Galaxies in the Early Universe: New Keys of the JWST Space Telescope” PRAYER and AFILIATION: Prof. Karina Caputi, Kapteyn Astronomical Institute, University of Groningen (Netherlands). SUMMARY: According to theoretical predictions, the formation of the first galaxies of the Universe occurred towards the end of the so-called ‘Dark Age’, about 300 million years after the Big Bang. At that time, the Universe was still composed mainly of neu…