galaxies
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Journey Into the Past: Webb’s Trippy 3D Animation Guides You to an Ancient Galaxy
In August 2022, scientists published a Webb Space Telescope deep field image that included some incredibly ancient galaxies, which formed around 390 million years after the Big Bang. Now, the Space Telescope Science Institute has produced a visualisation of part of the survey that discovered those ancient galaxies, giving viewers a dizzying journey through deep…
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Webb Space Telescope Discovers Farthest Active Supermassive Black Hole Known
Astronomers imaging the cosmos with the Webb Space Telescope have found the most distant active supermassive black hole yet. The black hole was “seen” as it was around 570 million years after the Big Bang. The universe is about 13.77 billion years old, meaning the newly discovered black hole popped up when the universe was…
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Webb Space Telescope Takes Portrait of Star-Studded Barred Galaxy
The Webb Space Telescope is on a tear, imaging regions of star formation across the cosmos. Its latest target? The barred spiral galaxy NGC 5068 — a bedazzled conglomeration of gas and stars 17 million light-years from Earth.
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Grasp the Size of a Black Hole in This New NASA Animation
A video recently shared by NASA showcases just how big supermassive black holes can get. Supermassive black holes have masses greater than 100,000 Suns, and NASA’s new visualisation shows the extent to which our local star pales in comparison.