{"id":9973,"date":"2021-03-10T11:38:02","date_gmt":"2021-03-10T11:38:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.innovationnewsnetwork.com\/?p=9973"},"modified":"2021-03-10T11:38:02","modified_gmt":"2021-03-10T11:38:02","slug":"supermassive-black-hole-in-the-early-universe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.innovationnewsnetwork.com\/supermassive-black-hole-in-the-early-universe\/9973\/","title":{"rendered":"Jet of particles found exiting\u00a0supermassive black hole in the early Universe"},"content":{"rendered":"
This could be the most distant supermassive black hole with a jet detected in X-rays. Coming from a galaxy about 12.7 billion light-years from Earth, the jet may help explain how the biggest black holes formed at a very early time in the Universe’s history.<\/p>\n
The source of the jet is a quasar, named PSO J352.4034-15.3373 (PJ352-15 for short), which sits at the centre of a young galaxy. It is one of the two most powerful quasars<\/a> detected in radio waves in the first billion years after the Big Bang, and is about a billion times more massive than the Sun.<\/p>\n The team observed PJ352-15 for three days using the sharp vision of Chandra to detect evidence for the X-ray jet. X-ray emission was detected about 160,000 light-years away from the quasar along the same direction as much shorter jets previously seen in radio waves by the Very Long Baseline Array.<\/p>\n PJ352-15 breaks a couple of different astronomical records. First, the longest jet previously observed from the first billion years after the Big Bang was only about 5,000 light-years in length, corresponding to the radio observations of PJ352-15. Second, PJ352-15 is about 300 million light-years farther away than the most distant X-ray jet recorded before it.<\/p>\n