Astronomy:CEERS 1019

Short description: Early supermassive black hole

CEERS 1019
Observation data (Epoch J2000.0)
Constellation	Boötes
Right ascension	14:20:8.494h
Declination	52.8906618°
Redshift	8.6788±0.0002
See also: Quasar,List of quasars]]

CEERS 1019 is a black hole is in the galaxy previously identified as EGSY8p7 or z910_6811 and may be the oldest known black hole as of 2023. The galaxy and its black hole came into existence about 570 million years after the Big Bang, and the black hole in the center of CEERS 1019 seems to be less massive than any other black holes identified in the early universe but still larger than black hole growth methods can currently explain. The authors of a 2023 preprint describing it state that "We find that it is difficult to explain a SMBH of this mass ... with a stellar seed", i.e. gravitational collapse into a stellar black hole. Its mass is 10^6.95±0.37 solar masses.

See also

• CEERS-93316
• Direct collapse black hole
• List of the most distant astronomical objects

References

Sources

• Larson, Rebecca L. et al. (March 15, 2023). "A CEERS Discovery of an Accreting Supermassive Black Hole 570 Myr after the Big Bang: Identifying a Progenitor of Massive z > 6 Quasars". The Astrophysical Journal Letters 953 (2): L29. doi:10.3847/2041-8213/ace619. Bibcode: 2023ApJ...953L..29L. 
• Turner, Ben (April 5, 2023). "James Webb Space Telescope discovers oldest black hole in the universe — a cosmic monster 10 million times heavier than the sun". https://www.livescience.com/james-webb-space-telescope-discovers-oldest-black-hole-in-the-universe-a-cosmic-monster-ten-million-times-heavier-than-the-sun. 
• Banne, Tanja (April 5, 2023). "Forschungsgruppe entdeckt ältestes aktives schwarzes Loch" (in German). Frankfurter Rundschau. https://www.fr.de/wissen/schwarzes-loch-aeltestes-james-webb-jwst-universum-weltall-galaxie-urknall-astronomie-studie-news-92184158.html. 
• Starr, Michelle (March 31, 2023). "The Earliest Supermassive Black Hole Ever Found Has Just Been Spotted". https://www.sciencealert.com/the-earliest-supermassive-black-hole-ever-found-has-just-been-spotted.