Do you remember Hubble's deep field? Now it's Chandra's turn! Chandra has made an important discovery through its deep-field imaging system. The Chandra X-ray telescope has helped astronomers come to discover the prevalence of black-holes in the early universe. The image (as seen below) was taken over a period of six weeks; taking images of the same piece of the sky, but keep on taking smaller and smaller images within that image until just a small portion is shown.
It allowed astronomers to locate two-hundred galaxies that contained early, black holes as seen below in the second image. (They are circled; not all 200 are shown). "It appears we've found a whole new population of baby black holes," said co-author Kevin Schawinski of Yale University. "We think these babies will grow by a factor of about a hundred or a thousand, eventually becoming like the giant black holes we see today almost 13 billion years later (in the future)" So, Chandra keeps on making new discoveries each day!
It allowed astronomers to locate two-hundred galaxies that contained early, black holes as seen below in the second image. (They are circled; not all 200 are shown). "It appears we've found a whole new population of baby black holes," said co-author Kevin Schawinski of Yale University. "We think these babies will grow by a factor of about a hundred or a thousand, eventually becoming like the giant black holes we see today almost 13 billion years later (in the future)" So, Chandra keeps on making new discoveries each day!
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