In addition to observing specific objects such as galaxies and distant planets here in our solar system, the James Webb Space Telescope is also used to perform large-scale surveys of parts of the sky. These surveys look at large swathes of the sky to identify important targets such as very distant and very ancient galaxies, … Read more
As astronomers push our views of the Universe further back in time, their telescopes keep uncovering surprises. This is the case for a supermassive black hole in CEERS 1019, a distant primitive galaxy. How soon? It already existed and was forming about 570 million years after the Big Bang. The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) … Read more
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has detected the most distant active supermassive black hole to date. The galaxy that hosts the ancient black hole, CEERS 1019, formed quite early in the history of the universe, just 570 million years after the Big Bang. The active supermassive black hole at the center of CEERS 1019 … Read more
