The AP is solely responsible for all content. The Associated Press Health and Science Department receives support from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Science and Educational Media Group. “I absolutely find it amazing that Chandra can do such amazing discoveries 24 years after its launch,” Bogdan said. The much older Chandra has X-ray vision it rocketed into orbit in 1999. Launched in 2021 to a point 1 million miles (1.6 million kilometers) away, Webb is the biggest and most powerful astronomical observatory ever sent into space it sees the universe in the infrared. “It’s a pretty faint object, and thanks to like luck, nature has magnified it for us,” Natarajan said The telescopes used the light from a much closer cluster of galaxies, a mere 3.2 billion light-years from Earth, to magnify UHZ1 and its black hole much farther in the background. The two space telescopes - Webb and Chandra - used a technique called gravitational lensing to magnify the region of space where this galaxy, UHZ1, and its black hole are located. “We are expecting a new window to open in the universe, and I think this is the first crack,” she said. The very next screen was telling me I had to enter this other email address they called the blackhole. Afterexcepting my new password Facebook asked for the verification code they sent my Gmail. Natarajan expects more early black holes will be found - perhaps not as far out, but still quite distant. Once it was thought that everything was safe I went to Facebook to change the password one more time. The Webb telescope alone may have spotted a black hole that is 29 million years older, according to scientists, but it’s yet to be observed in X-rays and verified. This one is considered a quasar since it's actively growing and the gas is blindingly bright, she added. With X-rays "you’re actually capturing the gas that is being gravitationally pulled into the black hole, sped up and it starts glowing in the X-rays," she said. The fact that Chandra detected it via X-ray confirms “without a doubt that it is a black hole,” according to Natarajan. The two galaxies merged, and the black hole took over. The researchers believe the black hole formed from colossal clouds of gas that collapsed in a galaxy next door to one with stars. "It’s astounding how this thing actually is sitting in place already with its galaxy so early on in the universe.” A companion article appeared in the Astrophysical Journal Letters. “It's just really early on in the universe to be such a behemoth," said Yale University's Priyamvada Natarajan, who took part in the study published in the journal Nature Astronomy. That is nowhere near the miniscule ratio of the black holes in our Milky Way and other nearby galaxies - an estimated 0.1%, he noted. It's believed to weigh anywhere from 10% to 100% the mass of all the stars in its galaxy, said lead author Akos Bogdan of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. Even more astounding to scientists, this black hole is a whopper - 10 times bigger than the black hole in our own Milky Way.
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