The Pillars of Creation featured as NASA’s "Image of the Day," processed by Luis Romero ✨
This near-infrared image captured by Hubble allows us to peer through much of the dense dust that renders the pillars opaque in visible light.
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This is the oldest known quasar! After more than 13 billion years, light emitted from its companion quasar has illuminated the existence of a black hole in negative space. Researchers, in a paper published this month in the Astrophysical Journal Letters, named the quasar J0313-1806 and wrote that the animated black hole originated 670 million years after the Big Bang—20 million years older than what is now the second-oldest black hole ever discovered. This oldest and most distant quasar and others like it are “critical to understanding how the earliest black holes formed and to understanding cosmic reionization—the last major phase transition of our universe,” said Xiaohui Fan, an astronomer at the University of Arizona. The J0313-1806 black hole is 1.6 billion times the mass of the sun ☀️ and 10 trillion times brighter. 🌟 Credit: NASA, Hubble. Image by Science Photo Library.