Astronomers discovered a rapidly growing black hole in one of the most extreme galaxies from the early universe.
Scientists from the University of Texas and the University of Arizona detected the colossal giant using the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) radio observatory in Chile.
Their observations shed new light on the formation of the earliest supermassive black holes and their role in early galaxies.
The new observations, detailed in a paper in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, show a supermassive black hole in a galaxy named COS-87259. This galaxy is an incredibly productive stellar nursery, as it produces stars at a rate 1000 times that of our own Milky Way and contains over a billion solar masses worth of interstellar dust.
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