American astronomers discover distant black holes through X-rays

08-11-2023

Xinhua News Agency photo, foreign agent, November 7, 2023

American astronomers discover distant black holes through X-rays

This is a photo released by NASA on November 6th of the farthest black hole ever discovered through X-rays.

X ray detector

NASA announced on the 6th that astronomers have jointly used the James Webb Space Telescope and the Chandra X-ray Observatory to observe the farthest black hole ever discovered through X-rays. According to reports, this black hole is located in a galaxy codenamed UHZ1, which is approximately 13.2 billion light years away from Earth, meaning it formed when the universe was very young.

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