Telescope captures 'monster king' through space 13 billion years

An image more than 13 billion years ago from an ancestor of monstrous black holes was captured by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.

According to a paper just published in the scientific journal Nature, the ancient object shows features "between" a giant dust cloud, a star-forming galaxy and a "disguised" black hole as bright as a star. is the quasar.

Born in the era known as the "cosmic dawn," this object is the first direct evidence of an early galaxy creeping into the foundation of a monstrous black hole.

Graphic image depicting the "portrait" of the ancestor of monster black holes

It is the legendary "monster" described by astronomical theories but never discovered, so-called "red transitional quasar".

Live Science quotes lead author Seiji Fujimoto from the Niels Bohr Institute of the University of Copenhagen (Denmark): "The discovered object connects two rare celestial populations, thus providing a new avenue for understanding. the rapid growth of supermassive black holes in the early universe".

Real image of a black hole 13 billion years ago

The supermassive black hole is what astronomers are used to calling a "monster black hole," whose mass ranges from hundreds of thousands to billions of times the Sun.

Evidence suggests that our early universe as a "Jurassic park", full of the most massive cosmic monsters, could be much larger than the generation of black holes and objects belonging to the universe. other current "monster" row.

According to Science Alert, the newly discovered monster black hole called GNz7q, born just 750 million years after the Big Bang, matches theoretical predictions about the ancestors of monster black holes.

Because the object is more than 13 billion light-years away from us, the image that Hubble recorded is actually a "through-the-air" image of the past world more than 13 billion years ago, when the "monster ancestor" GNz7q just appeared. alive and strong.