Astronomers Find Early Fast-Feeding Black Hole Using NASA …
1 day ago · The black hole, called LID-568, was hidden among thousands of objects in the Chandra X-ray Observatory’s COSMOS legacy survey, a catalog resulting from some 4.6 million Chandra observations. This population of galaxies is very bright in the X-ray light, but invisible in optical and previous near-infrared observations.
This Black Hole Is Eating Stuff at Over 40 Times The Theoretical …
A supermassive black hole in the early Universe is the most voracious of its kind we've ever seen. It's sitting in the middle of a galaxy called LID-568, as seen just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang, appearing to guzzle down material at a jaw-dropping rate of over 40 times a theoretical maximum known as the Eddington limit.
Astronomers discover the fastest-feeding black hole in the early ...
Nov 4, 2024 · The discovery of LID-568 also shows that it's possible for a black hole to exceed its Eddington limit, and provides the first opportunity for astronomers to study how this happens.
A rapidly growing black hole observed in the early Universe
Nov 4, 2024 · One such object that was followed up, and is the subject of this work, is LID-568: a supermassive black hole of approximately 10 million times the mass of the Sun, undergoing an incredibly intense ...
'Fastest-feeding' black hole of the early universe found! But does …
Nov 6, 2024 · The black hole — cataloged as LID-568, and which we're seeing as it existed just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang — was first spotted in a Chandra survey of luminous X-ray-emitting...
This black hole just did something theoretically impossible
Nov 7, 2024 · The investigation of LID-568, however, has just begun. Astronomers want to know how this black hole broke its Eddington limit, which means more viewing with the Webb telescope.
A super-Eddington-accreting black hole ~1.5 Gyr after the Big …
Nov 4, 2024 · LID-568 represents an elusive low-mass black hole experiencing super-Eddington accretion as invoked by models of early black hole formation. This discovery showcases a previously undiscovered...
NSF NOIRLab Astronomers Discover the Fastest-Feeding Black Hole …
Nov 4, 2024 · But with the discovery of a low-mass supermassive black hole feasting on material at an extreme rate, seen just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang, astronomers now have valuable new insights into the mechanisms of rapidly growing black holes in the early Universe. LID-568 was discovered by a cross-institutional team of astronomers led by ...
Webb telescope reveals rapid growth of primordial black hole
Nov 5, 2024 · The new Webb observations involve a supermassive black hole called LID-568 that existed when the cosmos was about 11% its current age - about 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang event 13.8...
Chandra :: Photo Album :: LID-568 :: November 4, 2024
Nov 4, 2024 · Using data from NASA's JWST and Chandra X-ray Observatory, a team of astronomers have discovered this low-mass supermassive black hole at the center of a galaxy just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang. It is pulling in matter at a phenomenal rate — over 40 times the theoretical limit.
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