Loktak in universe: Meitei astrophysicist leads discovery of 12.6-billion-year-old galaxy protocluster

Webb reveals black hole that formed before its galaxy

Using the unprecedented imaging and spectroscopic power of the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope, researchers have mapped the motion and composition of gas orbiting a black hole in the centre of Abell2744-QSO1, a tiny galaxy more than 13 billion light-years away. The results suggest that the 50-million-solar-mass black hole predates its host galaxy, possibly forming within the first second of the Big Bang, and must have been immense from t…

Loktak in universe: Meitei astrophysicist leads discovery of 12.6-billion-year-old galaxy protocluster

Guwahati: An Indian astrophysicist from Manipur, based at the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ), has led an international team to disc.