GNz7q


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
Direct collapse black hole, a process by which black holes may form less than a few hundred million years after the Big Bang
J0313–1806, the earliest known supermassive black hole as of 2021, formed a few hundred million years after the Big Bang

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Zoom Into GNz7q, video, European Space Agency

Supermassive black holes
Astronomical objects discovered in 2022
Starburst galaxies
Ursa Major