Gargantua in the Mist: A Precocious Black Hole Behemoth at the Edge of Cosmic Dawn
The new super-massive black hole J1342+0928 (yellow star), which resides in a mostly neutral universe at the edge of cosmic dawn, is more distant than any other found to date (yellow dots).
Credit:nyi Yang, University of Arizona; Reidar Hahn, Fermilab; M. Newhouse NOAO/AURA/NSF
About the Image
Id: | noao1707c |
Type: | Collage |
Release date: | Dec. 6, 2017, 1 p.m. |
Related releases: | noao1707 |
Size: | 739 x 792 px |
About the Object
Category: | Quasars and Black Holes |