An international Japanese-American team is part of a series of five studies published a few days ago that tracked 83 Quasars, each carrying a giant black hole in a very early universe when it was less than 10 percent of its current age. Which scientists estimate is 13.8 billion years old.
The quasars are very active galactic nuclei surrounded by a monster of hot gas with a full solar array. At the center of each quizar there is a giant black hole that swallows that surrounding substance in a universe event so powerful that the objects shine more than entire galaxies.
The Quizars are a little misleading, because they showed bright spots in the first images. Scientists think they are stars, but by monitoring them they do not have any of the stars‘ characteristics. They are called quasi-stars or pseudo-stars. Now scientists know they are distant galaxies It shows only her active heart.
Black holes discovered about 13 billion years ago, when the age of the universe is equivalent to 10% of his current age (Reuters)
A cosmic surprise
According to this group of studies, it is surprising that researchers find so many huge black holes at this very early time in the history of the universe, where it is supposed to take longer to be.
These giant black holes are about 13 billion light-years away. In other words, we see the ray of light that came out 13 billion years ago and not now, which means that the telescopes show the past of the universe, not the present.
In turn, this discovery opens the door to a new look at the physics of the first billion years of the history of the universe and black holes have an active role in it.
In order to reach those results, the team used a new sophisticated camera installed on the Subaru telescope at Japan’s National Astronomical Observatory, located on the top of Monaco in Hawaii. The telescope has a relatively wide field of vision equal to placing seven moons next to each other in the sky .
According to the new study, it took more than 300 night monitoring spread over five years of work so that the team can verify the existence of this number of black holes.
Researchers hope this exciting new discovery will develop the ability of astronomers to understand this very critical region of the history of the universe, whose understanding will inevitably help to understand the mechanics of the universe as a whole and its future as well.
