Once again the millionaire telescope NASA James Webb Reveals the beautiful secrets of the cosmic ballet. Now, his latest and most impressive image for scientists comes from an image that was initially blurry, but reveals a group of galaxies coalescing around a supermassive black hole harboring a rare quasar – a kind of stream of light that shoots out of space. The chaotic center of that void.
Scientists believe that this cosmic encounter, It occurs at least 11.5 billion light-years away. “Something exciting is about to happen in these systems,” says Andre Weiner, an astronomer at Johns Hopkins University and co-author of a study on the landscape soon to be published in Astrophysical Journal Letters.
This is because what has caught the attention of scientists is that the quasar in the image is considered to be of the “extremely red” type, which means that it is certainly very far from humanity and probably rooted in an ancient region of space, perhaps close to the beginning of time.
This is, of course, due to the light’s travel time, as each stream of cosmic light we see in one eye takes, say, 1.3 seconds to reach Earth – so somehow we always see a moon from the past, so to speak, and the further away we are, the longer it takes It takes longer to see a phenomenon from here.
In the case of this quasar, expectation is that it took 11.5 billion years for its light to reach EarthWe are still witnessing the events of that distant past. This also makes it, according to the team, one of the most powerful devices of its kind observed from such a gigantic distance.
“The galaxy at this perfect moment in its life is about to transform and look completely different in a few billion years,” Viner said of the area where the quasar is anchored.
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