An international team of researchers is still unsure what type of galaxy this is, but they do believe that it could be a massive galactic nursery containing some of the universe's first stars
The infinite expanse of space is somehow feeling a little bit bigger now, after an international team of researchers announced they had discovered the most distant astronomical object ever observed.Astrophysical JournalDue to its distance, the team is still unsure what type of galaxy it is—but they hypothesize that it could be a massive galactic nursery containing some of the universe’s first stars.
However, Paccuci and his team found that the galaxy gives off extremely bright ultraviolet light, and they were even able to calculate that HD1 was producing stars at “an incredible rate” of more than 100 each year. “This is at least 10 times higher than what we expect for these galaxies,” he said. Another theory is that HD1 contains a supermassive blackhole that’s ejecting large amounts of high energy photons as it consumes the gaseous objects around it. If it is a black hole, it would be one of the oldest ones ever recorded.Harikane et al., NASA, EST and P. Oesch/Yale
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