Posted on 11/10/2023 12:30:24 PM PST by MtnClimber
Explanation: Dominated by dark matter, massive cluster of galaxies Abell 2744 is known to some as Pandora's Cluster. It lies 3.5 billion light-years away toward the constellation Sculptor. Using the galaxy cluster's enormous mass as a gravitational lens to warp spacetime and magnify even more distant objects directly behind it, astronomers have found a background galaxy, UHZ1, at a remarkable redshift of Z=10.1. That puts UHZ1 far beyond Abell 2744, at a distance of 13.2 billion light-years, seen when our universe was about 3 percent of its current age. UHZ1 is identified in the insets of this composited image combining X-rays (purple hues) from the spacebased Chandra X-ray Observatory and infrared light from the James Webb Space Telescope. The X-ray emission from UHZ1 detected in the Chandra data is the telltale signature of a growing supermassive black hole at the center of the ultra high redshift galaxy. That makes UHZ1's growing black hole the most distant black hole ever detected in X-rays, a result that now hints at how and when the first supermassive black holes in the universe formed.
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13.2 billion light-years.....................Seems like only yesterday...............
“at a distance of 13.2 billion light-years, seen when our universe was about 3 percent of its current age”
That is unreal. So I would assume by now it’s long gone.
What if there are things so far away that the light has not reached us yet? Beyond our event horizon?
That would be unreal if it was further away than what they say the age of the universe is. What would that mean then? That there was no beginning? That they misjudged the age? I always thought, if the universe is infinite, then there must be infinite possibilities. Like right now there is a Capt. James T. Kirk flying around in a spaceship with Spock or a planet made up of creatures that all look and act like Nancy Pelosi which would be hell.
Purple Haze.
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