James Webb Telescope Detects Most Distant Dormant Black Hole, Invisible in All Wavelengths and Weighing as Much as 6 Billion Suns

JWST spots dormant black hole 10 billion light-years from Earth

Anything unfortunate enough to venture too close to a black hole inevitably falls prey to the gargantuan object’s inescapable gravitational pull. But that doesn’t mean a black hole is constantly devouring its next cosmic meal. In many cases, there comes a time when there simply isn’t anything left in its vicinity to consume. Although these dormant black holes don’t go anywhere, astronomers have a tough time detecting and observing them. That has…

JWST Just Measured The Mass Of A Dormant Black Hole 15 Times Further Than The Previous Record – "Something Completely Impossible Before"

JWST and gravitational lensing allowed scientists to resolve an area in the distant universe equivalent to looking at a "coin on the surface of the Moon."

James Webb telescope detects most distant dormant black hole, invisible in all wavelengths and weighing as much as 6 billion suns

JWST found a black hole hiding in a galaxy more than 10 billion light-years away from Earth, and used a cosmic magnifying glass to determine its mass.

Webb Weighs Most Distant Inactive Black Hole Ever Found

A supermassive black hole 6 billion times the mass of the Sun lurks in MRG-M0138, a gravitationally lensed quiescent galaxy seen when the Universe was just 3 billion years old, according to an analysis of data collected by the NIRSpec Integral Field Spectrograph onboard the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope. The post Webb Weighs Most Distant Inactive Black Hole Ever Found appeared first on Sci.News: Breaking Science News.

Webb Telescope discovers giant sleeping black hole from the early universe

Astronomers have discovered the most distant dormant black hole ever detected, offering a rare glimpse into the early universe and how massive black holes grew alongside their host galaxies. The black hole lies at the center of a galaxy called MRG-M0138, located more than 10 billion light-years from Earth. This means astronomers are seeing it […] The post Webb Telescope discovers giant sleeping black hole from the early universe appeared first o…