The James Webb Space Telescope has spotted the earliest known galaxy to ever be"quenched" — suddenly and mysteriously halting its star formation — and scientists think the supermassive black hole in its center could be to blame.
Related: James Webb Telescope spots galaxies from the dawn of time that are so massive they 'shouldn't exist' Enter the James Webb Space Telescope . The $10 billion space observatory was designed to read the earliest chapters of the universe's history in its faintest glimmers of light — picked up by the telescope’s infrared sensors — after being stretched out from billions of years of travel across the expanding fabric of space-time. Studying GS-9209 with the JWST revealed that the distant galaxy roared into life 600 million years after the Big Bang with an enormous burst of star formation.
"Typically, the galaxies we see today have had access to about five times as much gas or more than they formed stars. This result and some others are beginning to point now to that ratio being a bit higher in the early universe," Carnall said."The emerging picture is that at the highest redshifts [the furthest back in time] galaxies are capable of forming more of the available gas into stars.
Does this imply that given a push (*cough* Andromeda collision *cough*) there might be a huge starburst beyond what scientists are even expecting as of now?
Quenched...by... Q?
Awesome view
i thought this was elite dangerious lol
That's a big Dyson sphere
Maybe it was 'quenched' it could also be that we are simply not detecting it to the degree we once were. Maybe they have us on block lol
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