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GNz7q is a
starburst galaxy with a candidate proto-supermassive black hole in the early Universe, at a redshift of 7.1899 ± 0.0005, estimated to have existed only 750 years after the Big Bang. It was discovered in the
Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey-North (GOODS-North) field taken by the
Hubble Space Telescope.
The discovery is "the first observation of a rapidly growing black hole in the early universe" and is thought to help explain the growth of supermassive black holes less than a billion years after the Big Bang.
See also
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Direct collapse black hole
Direct collapse black holes are high-mass black hole seeds, putatively formed within the redshift range 15, when the Universe was about 100-250 million years old. Unlike seeds formed from the first population of stars (also known as St ...
, a process by which black holes may form less than a few hundred million years after the Big Bang
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J0313–1806
J0313–1806 is the most distant known quasar at z = 7.64. In January 2021, it was identified as the most redshifted (highest ''z'') known quasar, with the oldest known supermassive black hole (SMBH) at solar masses. The 2021 announcement paper d ...
, the earliest known supermassive black hole as of 2021, formed a few hundred million years after the Big Bang
References
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External links
Zoom Into GNz7q video, European Space Agency
Supermassive black holes
Astronomical objects discovered in 2022
Starburst galaxies
Ursa Major
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