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.
A stunning view from the James Webb Telescope ✨
This image captures the planetary nebula NGC 6537, also known as the Red Spider Nebula. Its exact distance is unknown; various sources cite figures ranging from 2,000 to 8,000 light-years.
Objects like this represent the future that awaits our Sun. Once it exhausts its hydrogen fuel, it will begin to expand, transforming into a red giant. Eventually, it will shed its outer layers, leaving behind only a bare core. Radiation from the core will ionize the surrounding material, causing it to glow and form a visible nebula—much like NGC 6537. This phase will not last long; in a few tens of thousands of years, the core will cool, and the nebula will dissipate.
In the case of NGC 6537, there is a possibility that its center harbors two stars rather than one. Hourglass-shaped nebulae of this kind often originate in binary star systems, though the existence of a companion star has not yet been confirmed.
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Scientists from China have reliably confirmed for the first time the presence of a solid inner core on Mars.
Its radius is approximately 600 kilometers, roughly one-fifth of the planet's radius. The discovery was made by an international team of researchers from the University of Science and Technology of China.
The key piece of evidence came from marsquake data collected by the SEIS seismometer on NASA's InSight lander. By analyzing seismic waves traveling through the planet's interior, the scientists discovered that Mars's core has a layered structure: a liquid outer core and a solid inner core.
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