A new study by astronomers has identified a supermassive and one of the oldest black hole which was known to be formed 690 million years after the Big Bang.
This study further claims that this supermassive black hole grew to about 800 million times the mass of sun.
Eduardo Bañados, an astronomer at Carnegie uncovered the object while he was held up surveying the sky. He was astonished when he noticed a mass which is 800 times larger than the sun.
The black hole itself might be the whole world said Eduardo Bañados.
It is said that the Universe is just 5% of its current age.
This black hole is expected to assist on “n” number of cosmic mysteries including how exactly the Universe is.
It can solve mysteries like:
- How black holes possibly could have reached gargantuan sizes after the Big Bang
- How the musky Fog was cleared from the Universe which filled the entire cosmos
“This is the only object we have observed from this era,” says Robert Simcoe, the Francis L. Friedman Professor of Physics in MIT’s Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research. “It has an extremely high mass, and yet the universe is so young that this thing shouldn’t exist. The universe was just not old enough to make a black hole that big. It’s very puzzling.”
These black holes usually release huge volumes of light while they go apart and devour matter and act as a driving force behind quasars. Quasars are known to be one of the brightest objects in the Universe.
Quasars could be detected from the farthest corners of the world as they are the most distant objects known.
The away Quasar is from the Earth, the more time it takes for the light to reach the earth.
The earliest known quasar is located at 13.04 billion light years from Earth and existed about 750 million years after the Big Bang.
It was highly challenging for the researchers and scientists to study how the black holes has grown over the past years.
According to the prediction made by researchers, it was expected that only 20 to 100 quasars since they are as bright and distant as the newly found Quasar.
“This particular quasar is so bright that it will become a gold mine for follow-up studies and will be a crucial laboratory to study the early universe,” Bañados told Space.com. “We have already secured observations for this object with a number of the most powerful telescopes in the world. More surprises may arise.”
The researchers are still too busy in going to the crux of the supermassive blackhole since the process of creation still remains a big question mark.
