CEERS 1019 black hole

The CEERS 1019 black hole is in the galaxy previously identified as EGSY8p7 or z910_6811 and may be the oldest known black hole as of 2023.[2][3][4] The authors of a 2023 preprint describing it state that "We find that it is difficult to explain a Supermassive Black Hole (SMBH) of this mass so early on in the Universe." [5] Its mass is (6.95±0.37)×106 solar masses.[1]

CEERS 1019
Observation data (Epoch J2000.0)
ConstellationBoötes
Right ascension14:20:8.494h [1]
Declination52.8906618°[1]
Redshift8.6788±0.0002[1]
See also: Quasar, List of quasars

See also

References
  1. Larson et al. 2023, p. 3, table 1.
  2. Banne 2023.
  3. Turner 2023.
  4. Starr 2023.
  5. Larson et al. 2023, p. 23.

Sources
  • Larson, Rebecca L.; et al. (March 15, 2023). "A CEERS Discovery of an Accreting Supermassive Black Hole 570 Myr after the Big Bang: Identifying a Progenitor of Massive z > 6 Quasars". arXiv:2303.08918 [astro-ph.GA].
  • Turner, Ben (April 5, 2023). "James Webb Space Telescope discovers oldest black hole in the universe — a cosmic monster 10 million times heavier than the sun". Live Science.
  • Banne, Tanja (April 5, 2023). "Forschungsgruppe entdeckt ältestes aktives schwarzes Loch" [Research group discovers the oldest active black hole] (in German). Frankfurter Rundschau.
  • Starr, Michelle (March 31, 2023). "The Earliest Supermassive Black Hole Ever Found Has Just Been Spotted". ScienceAlert.


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