If black holes were fascination AstronomersThis is mainly due to their power, but also due to the many mysteries surrounding them. Recently, researchers made a startling discovery by discovering three supermassive black holes in a single galaxy for the first time.
This galaxy is called J0148-4214 and is located about 12.5 billion light-years from Earth. land. In other words, they are thought to have formed shortly after the Big Bang, and we can see them as they looked 1.2 billion years after that event.
By studying this celestial body, researchers discovered two massive black holes in its center, 620 light-years away. A third has also been discovered, located about 5,500 light-years from the center. In addition, its mass is estimated at 80 million, 0.6 million, and 2 million solar masses. And that’s not all, because according to astronomers, the more massive black hole has a lower accretion rate than the less massive black hole. On this topic, Dr. Giovanni Mazzolari, the second author of the study and a researcher at MPE, explains:
“The James Webb Space Telescope data allowed us not only to identify the three black holes, but also to estimate their masses, accretion rates, and the stellar mass of the galaxy. We find that the total stellar mass is about 1.3 billion solar masses, and black holes account for a large portion of that“.
As for the fate of these black holes, it is expected that the binary system located at the center of the galaxy will merge after several hundred million years. The third one likely resulted from the merger of two galaxies and appears to be moving toward the center of its host galaxy.
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