NASA's Webb Telescope Discovers Supermassive Black Hole

New Delhi: NASA said on Thursday that the James Webb Space Telescope had found the most distant supermassive black hole to date, which seems to be active. The galaxy, known as CEERS 1019, has been around for more than 570 million years after the big bang, and its black hole is smaller than any other one that has been found so far in the early cosmos.

The James Webb telescope has also discovered 11 galaxies that were present when the universe had barely been around for 470 to 675 million years, according to NASA.

The space agency claims that CEERS 1019's black hole is more like the 4.6 million times the mass of the Sun black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy. According to NASA, the black hole discovered inside CEERS 1019 is comparable to the one found at the galactic center of the Milky Way, which has a mass 4.6 million times higher than the sun. The newly discovered black hole is also not as brilliant as the enormous monsters that have already been identified.

Though smaller, according to NASA, the black hole has been around for so long that it is difficult to understand how it came to be after the universe's creation.

In comparison to other telescopes, the James Webb telescope aids scientists in discovering and testing ideas using more precise data. According to NASA, scientists can measure the galaxy's star formation rate and the amount of gas the black hole is consuming.

Additionally, 11 galaxies that originated between 470 and 675 million years ago were discovered by the NASA telescope, which is remarkable because scientists had thought Webb would find fewer galaxies at these distances.

The James Webb telescope's capacity is anticipated to give scientists access to a significant amount of data for studying galaxies and black holes.

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