Astronomers have discovered a supermassive black hole, the oldest and also the most distant. They hope this discovery will solve the mystery of black holes.
The discovery was made using one of the Magellan telescopes at the Las Campanas Observatory in Chile, the Large Binocular Telescope in Arizona, and the Gemini North in Hawaii.
The newly discovered black holes are part of the oldest and most distant quasar ever discovered (quasars are gigantic objects that are powered by black holes and billions of times larger than the Sun).
According to scientists, this quasar is called J1342 + 0928, it was formed 690 million years after the Big Bang, when the universe was only 5% of its current age.
Scientists hope the new black hole will help unravel some of the mysteries of outer space, like how quickly black holes grow to huge size after the Big Bang, or how the universe does. Dust is cleaned up once previously filled in the space.
According to scientists, the formation of a giant object may be due to its location in an unusually high density region of the universe.
The black hole grows rapidly in size, attracting its surroundings, but then decreases in size and transforms into a typical supermassive black hole at the center of an elliptical galaxy.
