It can produce new stars at a rate 10 times faster than other galaxies.
The new galaxy is 13 billion years from Earth
An international team of astronomers has discovered the most distant galaxy in history. Recently, scientists managed to see the most distant star ever seen.
The galaxy, dubbed HD1, lies about 13.5 billion light-years away.
The galaxy appears very bright in UV light, leading astronomers to wonder about its origin.
New galaxy could be a supermassive black hole / Photo: NASA
First, HD1 is a super-powerful starburst galaxy. It may be so bright because it produces stars about 10 times faster than expected for a traditional galaxy, and these stars may even be among the earliest stars in the universe. They are known to shine brighter than other stars.
Alternatively, it could be a supermassive black hole, about 100 million times the mass of our Sun, feeding on gas and dust, a tumultuous process that creates an enormous amount of light.
Scientists hope that the soon-to-be-operated James Webb Telescope will be able to study HD1 and show how far it can go.
Earlier we wrote that astronomers showed a cosmic merger of three galaxies. NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captured what happens during a triple merger of galaxies.
Source: Segodnya
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