Astronomers detect vast amounts of gas and dust around black hole in early universe
Tuesday, March 27, 2012 - 22:30
in Astronomy & Space
Astronomers have discovered a large reservoir of gas and dust in a galaxy that surrounds the most distant supermassive black hole known. Light from the galaxy, called J1120+0641, has taken so long to reach us that the galaxy is seen as it was only 740 million years after the Big Bang, when the universe was only 1/18th of its current age.