Webb Telescope discovers possible direct collapse black hole in galaxy collision

Researchers Pieter van Dokkum of Yale University and Gabriel Brammer of the University of Copenhagen have uncovered a remarkable cosmic system in archival data from the James Webb Space Telescope’s COSMOS-Web survey: a pair of colliding disk galaxies whose overlapping rings create a glowing figure-eight, dubbed the “Infinity Galaxy.”  But it’s not just the shapeContinue reading “Webb Telescope discovers possible direct collapse black hole in galaxy collision”
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