{"id":59121,"date":"2024-05-16T11:35:21","date_gmt":"2024-05-16T11:35:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/e01d904d-7193-4a95-b880-7e8ee1dc25b3"},"modified":"2024-05-16T12:08:31","modified_gmt":"2024-05-16T12:08:31","slug":"webb-detects-farthest-black-hole-collision-ever-seen-looking-back-to-a-period-shortly-after-the-big-bang","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcskyatnight\/rss_feed\/webb-detects-farthest-black-hole-collision-ever-seen-looking-back-to-a-period-shortly-after-the-big-bang\/","title":{"rendered":"Webb detects farthest black hole collision ever seen, looking back to a period shortly after the Big Bang"},"content":{"rendered":"

Webb Telescope’s image of galaxy system ZS7 reveals the farthest black hole collision ever seen, just 780 million years after the Big Bang. <\/p>

By Iain Todd\n <\/p>

Published: Thursday, 16 May 2024 at 11:35 AM<\/p>

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In astronomy, when you look deep into the cosmos, you’re looking back in time<\/a>, because objects in space are so far away it takes their light millions of years to reach us.<\/p>

The James Webb Space Telescope<\/a> has detected evidence of a merger of two galaxies<\/a> and their central supermassive black holes, so far away we’re seeing it unfold shortly after the Big Bang<\/a>.<\/p>