NASA Telescopes Discover Record-Breaking Black Hole
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Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO/Ákos Bogdán; Infrared: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI; Image Processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/L. Frattare
Astronomers found the most distant black hole ever detected in X-rays (in a galaxy dubbed UHZ1) using the Chandra and Webb telescopes. X-ray emission is a telltale signature of a growing supermassive black hole. This result may explain how some of the first supermassive black holes in the universe formed. This composite image shows the galaxy cluster Abell 2744 that UHZ1 is located behind, in X-rays from Chandra (purple) and infrared data from Webb (red, green, blue).
Provider: Chandra X-ray Observatory
Image Source: http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2023/uhz1/
Curator: Chandra X-Ray Observatory, Cambridge, MA, USA
Image Use Policy: http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/image_use.html
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- ID
- 815
- Subject Category
- Subject Name
- UHZ1
- Credits
- X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO/Ákos Bogdán; Infrared: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI; Image Processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/L. Frattare
- Release Date
- Lightyears
- 13,200,000,000
- Redshift
- 13,200,000,000
- Reference Url
- http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2023/uhz1/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Good
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- Chandra X-ray Observatory, James Webb Space Telescope
- Instrument
- ACIS, -
- Color Assignment
- Purple, Pseudocolor
- Band
- X-ray, Infrared
- Bandpass
- Central Wavelength
- Start Time
- 2001-09-03-0412, -
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- 2212, 7712, 7915, 8477, 8557, 25278, 25279, 25907, 25908, 25910, 25911, 25912, 25913, 25914, 25915, 25918, 25919, 25920, 25922, 25923, 25924, 25925, 25926, 25927, 25928, 25929, 25930, 25931, 25932, 25934, 25936, 25937, 25938, 25939, 25942, 25944, 25945, 25948, 25951, 25953, 25954, 25956, 25957, 25958, 25963, 25967, 25968, 25969, 25970, 25971, 25972, 25973, 26280, 27347, 27449, 27450, 27556, 27575, 27678, 27679, 27680, 27681
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- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 3.567083333333333, -30.377861111111113
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- Notes
- Creator (Curator)
- Chandra X-Ray Observatory
- URL
- http://chandra.harvard.edu
- Name
- Chandra X-ray Observatory Center
- cxcpub@cfa.harvard.edu
- Telephone
- 617.496.7941
- Address
- 60 Garden St.
- City
- Cambridge
- State/Province
- MA
- Postal Code
- 02138
- Country
- USA
- Rights
- http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/image_use.html
- Publisher
- Chandra X-ray Center
- Publisher ID
- chandra
- Resource ID
- 815
- Resource URL
- http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2023/uhz1/uhz1.tif
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- Metadata Date
- 2023-12-05
- Metadata Version
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
