NASA spots rapidly growing black hole — ‘Missing link’ in supermassive phenomena origins

While extremely rare, both dusty starburst galaxies and luminous quasars have been seen from the early universe.

However, the middle step predicted by the theory, a rapidly growing black hole, had never previously been detected.

In their study, astronomer Dr Seiji Fujimoto of the University of Copenhagen and his colleagues analysed data collected by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope.

They identified an object — designated “GNz7q” — that was lurking unnoticed in one of the best-studied areas of the night sky and existed just 750 million years after the Big Bang.

GNz7q appears as a compact source of infrared and ultraviolet light, quite unlike the emissions that would be expected from a galaxy but entirely consistent with the kind of radiation that would be released from material falling into a black hole.

Moreover, the object combines aspects of both starburst galaxies and quasars with the quasar light showing a dust-reddened colour.

Article source: https://www.express.co.uk/news/science/1596270/nasa-hubble-rapidly-growing-black-hole-missing-link-supermassive-origins