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Monster Black Holes Lurk at the Edge of Time
The reddish object in this infrared image is ULASJ1234+0907, located about 11 billion light-years from Earth. The red color comes from vast amounts of dust, which absorbs bluer light, and obscures the supermassive black hole from view in visible wavelengths. Credit: image created using data from UKIDSS and the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) observatory.
As if staring toward the edge of the Universe weren’t fascinating enough, scientists at the University of Cambridge say they see enormous, rapidly growing supermassive black holes barely detectable near the edge of time.
Thick dust shrouds the monster black holes but they emit vast amounts of radiation through violent interactions and collisions with their host galaxies making them visible in the infrared part of the electromagnetic spectrum. The team published their results in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.
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© John Williams for Universe Today, 2012. | Permalink | One comment |
Post tags: Black Holes, Early Universe, esa, Hubble Space Telescope, infrared, Markarian 231, NASA, UK Infrared Telescope, UKIRT, ULASJ1234+0907, Virgo
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2012-10-10 07:28:12
Source: http://www.universetoday.com/97796/monster-black-holes-lurk-at-the-edge-of-time/
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