When the universe first exploded into existence, it had to start somewhere and now experts say they’ve found an interesting discovery in that very area. The region is often referred to as the Cosmic Dawn and researchers say they’ve identified a black hole in galaxy UHZ1.
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00:00 When the universe first exploded into existence, it had to start somewhere, and now experts
00:07 say they've found an interesting discovery in that very area.
00:10 The region is often referred to as the Cosmic Dawn, and researchers say they've identified
00:15 a black hole in galaxy UH-Z1.
00:18 That host galaxy was formed only 470 million years after the Big Bang, meaning not only
00:24 is the black hole the oldest experts have ever discovered, it's at a stage in its development
00:28 that scientists have never seen, and it's absolutely huge.
00:32 Astronomers say it's so large, it now has around the same mass as the galaxy in which
00:36 it resides.
00:37 And it's so far away, researchers needed two powerful telescopes and gravitational
00:41 lensing to see it.
00:42 Or when the gravity from a large cosmic body like a galactic cluster bends and elongates
00:47 light, making the images beyond it appear larger.
00:50 The light from the galaxy took 13.2 billion years to reach Earth, but now that it has,
00:54 it's adding more data to the meager quiver with regards to black holes.
00:58 So how big is it?
00:59 Experts don't have that nailed down exactly, but it's between 10 million and 100 million
01:04 times the mass of our sun, too big to have formed from a star collapse, with the researchers
01:08 saying quote "We think that this is the first detection of an outsized black hole,
01:13 and the best evidence yet obtained that some black holes form from massive clouds of gas."
01:18 -Elon Musk