Hubble image archive
Crop of the GNz7q in the Hubble GOODS-North field
An international team of astronomers using archival data from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and other space- and ground-based observatories have discovered a unique object in the distant universe that is a crucial link between young star-forming galaxies and the earliest supermas...
- Date
- Jan 1, 2022
- Mission
- Hubble Space Telescope
- Archive ID
- hubblesite-images-2022-019-01g050e1fv64zf2aj6nespq7nb
An international team of astronomers using archival data from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and other space- and ground-based observatories have discovered a unique object in the distant universe that is a crucial link between young star-forming galaxies and the earliest supermassive black holes. This object is the first of its kind to be discovered when the universe was only 750 million years old. It had been lurking unnoticed in one of the best-studied areas of the night sky. The object, which is referred to as GNz7q, is the red dot in the center of the image of the Hubble Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey-North (GOODS-North).
Credits
Science
NASA, ESA, Garth Illingworth (UC Santa Cruz), Pascal Oesch (UC Santa Cruz, Yale), Rychard Bouwens (LEI), Ivo Labbe (LEI), Cosmic Dawn Center/Niels Bohr Institute/University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Image Details
| About The Object | |
|---|---|
| Object Name | GOODS North Field |
| Object Description | GOODS North Survey |
| R.A. Position | 12 36 44.27 |
| Dec. Position | 62° 14' 24.48" |
| Constellation | Ursa Major |
| About The Data | |
| Instrument | HST>ACS/WFC, and HST>WFC3/IR |
| Filters | F814W (I), F850LP (z), F125W (J), and F160W (H) |
| About The Image | |
| Color Info | The GOODS North Field image includes exposures acquired by the ACS and WFC3 instruments on the Hubble Space Telescope. Several filters were used to sample broad wavelength ranges. The color results from assigning different hues (colors) to each monochromatic (grayscale) image associated with an individual filter. In this case, the assigned colors are: Green: F814W (I) + F850LP (z) Red: F125W (J) + F160W (H) |
Source
Image and source material are credited to the official mission archive linked below.
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