The Oldest, Most Distant Galaxy Ever Photographed Is 13.5 Billion Years Old

This compact galaxy existed 280 million years after the Big Bang.

PetaPixel
Webb Finds the Farthest Galaxy Ever Seen (So Far)

There are some things that never cease to amaze me and the discovery of distant objects is one of them. The James Webb Space Telescope has just found the most distant galaxy ever observed! It has the catchy title JADES-GS-z14-0 and it has a redshift of 14.32. This means its light left when the Universe … Continue reading "Webb Finds the Farthest Galaxy Ever Seen (So Far)"

Universe Today
Physicists solve puzzle about ancient galaxy found by Webb telescope

Last September, the James Webb Space Telescope, or JWST, discovered JWST-ER1g, a massive ancient galaxy that formed when the universe was just a quarter of its current age. Surprisingly, an Einstein ring is associated with this galaxy. That's because JWST-ER1g acts as a lens and bends light from a distant source, which then appears as a ring—a phenomenon called strong gravitational lensing, predicted in Einstein's theory of general relativity.

Phys.org
'Beyond what's possible': New JWST observations unearth mysterious ancient galaxy

Our understanding of how galaxies form and the nature of dark matter could be completely upended after new observations of a stellar population bigger than the Milky Way from more than 11 billion years ago that should not exist.

Phys.org
#Oldestblackhole was formed 470 million years after #BigBang, and it has just been found
#NASA researchers have identified an #ancientgalaxy in the early universe that hosts an actively feeding central black hole.
https://www.wionews.com/science/scientists-discover-oldest-black-hole-dating-back-470-million-years-after-big-bang-656068
Oldest black hole was formed 470 million years after Big Bang, and it has just been found

Oldest black hole was formed 470 million years after Big Bang, and it has just been found

WION

For the first time, #astronomers have observed #chaos in the center of an #ancientgalaxy, the sort of place where a million or more #stars are locked in a dance of death.

https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/the-universe-has-a-pressure-cooker-and-it-makes-black-holes?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

The Universe Has a Pressure Cooker, and It Makes Black Holes

For the first time, astronomers have observed chaos in the center of an ancient galaxy, the sort of place where a million or more stars are locked in a dance of death.

Discover Magazine

#InternationalGeminiObservatory traces #gammarayburst to nucleus of #ancientgalaxy, suggesting #stars can undergo demolition-derby-like collisions

https://noirlab.edu/public/news/noirlab2319/?lang

Never-Before-Seen Way to Annihilate a Star - International Gemini Observatory traces gamma-ray burst to nucleus of ancient galaxy, suggesting stars can undergo demolition-derby-like collisions

Astronomers studying a powerful gamma-ray burst (GRB) with the Gemini South telescope, operated by NSF’s NOIRLab, may have detected a never-before-seen way to destroy a star. Unlike most GRBs, which are caused by exploding massive stars or the chance mergers of neutron stars, astronomers have concluded that this GRB came instead from the collision of stars or stellar remnants in the jam-packed environment surrounding a supermassive black hole at the core of an ancient galaxy.

www.noirlab.edu