2/2 #Astronomy: #JamesWebbSpaceTelescope: The oldest Super Black Hole so far. Akos Bogdan, Akos Bogdan of the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian Observatory
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🗓️ 1 December 2023
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2/2 #Astronomy: #JamesWebbSpaceTelescope: The oldest Super Black Hole so far. Akos Bogdan, Akos Bogdan of the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian Observatory
https://www.nasa.gov/missions/chandra/nasa-telescopes-discover-record-breaking-black-hole/
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| 0:45.3 | the word beginning is arbitrary. |
| 0:47.3 | I shouldn't use time here. |
| 0:48.8 | It's taking us back to a place where we're not sure what was before. Before is not useful. I don't know the language |
| 0:54.7 | breaks down. Aikos Bogdan is an astrophysicist at Harvard Smithsonian Center for |
| 1:01.2 | Astrophysics and he has written a paper about the revelation of an earliest super black hole |
| 1:09.3 | so far although I believe Aikos expects to find more. He's using the James |
| 1:14.6 | Web Space Telescope and the Chandra X-ray Observatory. Professor, I know I'm using |
| 1:22.1 | language that's inappropriate because time is part of the universe. |
| 1:26.4 | What was before the formation of this galaxy with the super black hole in the middle of it. Large stars, gas, what was in those first 470 million years that created the events you're observing? |
| 1:41.0 | Well, I mean, what happened before is essentially gas was falling onto the dark matter |
| 1:49.2 | of HALO. |
| 1:50.2 | So we had a dark matter of HALO in which these galaxy seats and in which every galaxy seats. |
| 1:56.0 | And then gas was falling onto this dark matter of halo and then a large amount of gas formed the black hole and then some other |
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