Dancing Galaxies Make a Monster at the Cosmic Dawn

12/09/2024 4 min Episodio 73
Dancing Galaxies Make a Monster at the Cosmic Dawn

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Using the combined power of the Subaru Telescope and the ALMA radio telescope, astronomers have discovered a system where two distant galaxies, located 12.8 billion light-years away, are in the process of merging. These galaxies, hosting faint quasars at their centers, could be the ancestors of the brightest and most massive quasars in the early Universe, shedding light on the mysterious processes that trigger the explosive growth of supermassive black holes.