Gargantua in the Mist: A Precocious Black Hole Behemoth at the Edge of Cosmic Dawn
Artist’s concepts of the most distant supermassive black hole known.the black hole resides in a mostly neutral universe, 690 million years after the Big Bang, at a time when the first galaxies were appearing.
Credit:Robin Dienel, courtesy of the Carnegie Institution for Science
About the Image
| Id: | noao1707b |
| Type: | Artwork |
| Release date: | Dec. 6, 2017, 1 p.m. |
| Related releases: | noao1707 |
| Size: | 3600 x 2400 px |
About the Object
| Category: | Quasars and Black Holes |
