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    Black Hole at the Center of a Galaxy in the Early Universe received Less Mass Influx than expected, astronomers find

    January 31, 2024, Categories  Astronomy/Space

    Reddish vortex seen from from the side above with a bright centre and a thin ray protruding vertically from the plane
    Cosmic powerhouse: Artist’s impression of a quasar whose core region was literally set in motion in the early universe. While galaxies often merged with each other at that time, large amounts of matter were thrown into the centres of the galaxies. When matter orbits the supermassive black hole in the centre of a galaxy, energy is released, which explains the enormous brightness of an active galaxy. The quasar can therefore still be observed from a great distance today.
    © ESO / M. Kornmesser

    With the upgraded GRAVITY-instrument at the Very Large Telescope Interferometer of the European Southern Observatory, a team of astronomers led by the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics has determined the mass of a black hole in a galaxy only 2 billion years after the Big Bang...

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