WASHINGTON: According to a report published by Nature Journal, scientists from China have discovered a black hole that is 2,400 times larger than any black hole of its approximate age that has been previously discovered.
In their report, researchers from China’s Peking University in collaboration with the University of Arizona claimed that SDSS J010013.02, the name given to the black hole, was approximately six times larger than any other black hole that scientists have observed to date.
“The existence of such black holes when the Universe was less than one billion years old presents substantial challenges to theories of the formation and growth of black holes and the co-evolution of black holes and galaxies,” stated the reseachers.
Lead researcher Xue-Bing Wu and his team first spotted the black hole using a powerful telescope in Yunnan, China as well as additional telescopes around the world to verify their findings.
Once discovered, scientists quickly recognized that SDSS could be pivotal in understanding black holes with SDSS being a bridge between the super massive black holes which originated shortly after the big bang and black holes that formed as the universe began to take shape about 500 to 1000 million years later.
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