CXC: Cloaked Black Hole Discovered in Early Universe

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CXC: Cloaked Black Hole Discovered in Early Universe

Post by bystander » Thu Aug 08, 2019 7:23 pm

Cloaked Black Hole Discovered in Early Universe
NASA | MSFC | SAO | Chandra X-ray Observatory | 2019 Aug 08
Data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory have revealed what may be the most distant shrouded black hole, as reported in our press release. Found at a time only about 850 million years after the Big Bang, this black hole could help astronomers better understand an important epoch in the history of the Universe.

The large image shown here is from the optical PanSTARRS survey. The image on the left contains X-rays detected with Chandra from a small, central region (marked with a red cross) of the optical field. In the middle is the quasar PSO167-13, which was first discovered with PanSTARRS. Optical observations from these and other surveys have resulted in the detection of about 200 quasars that, like PSO167-13, were already shining brightly when the universe was less than a billion years old, or about 7 percent of its present age. On the right, the image shows the same field of view as seen by the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) of radio dishes in Chile. The bright source is the quasar and a faint, nearby companion galaxy is seen to the lower left.

Many black holes, especially in the early Universe, are expected to be veiled by thick clouds of gas and dust. These are known as "obscured" black holes. This cocoon of material makes it more difficult to find and identify these black holes because it blocks much of the light that is emitted from the region around the black hole.

Astronomers think that most of the early growth of black holes occurs while the black hole and disk are strongly obscured. The cocoon of material feeds into the disk, and as the black hole grows, the gas in the cloud is depleted until the black hole and its bright disk are uncovered. ...

Discovery of the first heavily obscured QSO candidate at z > 6 in a close galaxy pair ~ Fabio Vito et al
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Re: CXC: Cloaked Black Hole Discovered in Early Universe

Post by BDanielMayfield » Thu Aug 08, 2019 8:06 pm

Don't all black holes have a built in cloaking device? :rocketship:
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