Researchers have discovered what they believe to be the most distant celestial object ever discovered: HD1, a galaxy candidate estimated to be 13.5 billion light-years away. It is an incredible 100 million light-years away from the most distant galaxy currently known, GN-z11. HD1 shines brightly in ultraviolet light, indicating that the galaxy is full of activity. As a result, scientists are speculating that it may be a starburst galaxy, or one that rapidly generates stars. However, subsequent examination revealed that the galaxy candidate was forming over 100 stars each year, which was 10 times the rate of typical starburst galaxies.
The discovery was made by an international team of astronomers including experts from the Center for Astrophysics. Harvard and Smithsonian.
The team of researchers has two suggestions. First, HD1 can form stars at an incredible rate, and it may also be home to Population III stars, the first stars in the universe that have never been seen before. Second, HD1 could also be home to a supermassive black hole that has a mass 100 million times greater than ours. sun,
search was informed of In the Astrophysical Journal (APJ). Researchers begin to speculate on what the Milky Way is all about in an accompanying report published Letter in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (MNRAS).
Fabio Pacucci, lead author of the MNRAS study and co-author of the Discovery paper on APJ, said In a statement that answering questions on the nature of a source that is so far away was “equivalent to estimating a ship’s nationality, with a ship’s flag and a ship in the midst of thick fog, far shore.” But while living, flutters.” Pakki said that some colors and sizes of the flag can be seen, but not all. In the end, it is a long process of studying and eliminating unimaginable scenarios.
On Population III stars, Pacucci stated that the earliest populations of the universe were more massive, brighter and hotter than today’s stars. If we assume that the stars formed in HD1 are early or Population III stars, then the characteristics of the galaxy can be better described.
HD1 was discovered after nearly 1,200 hours of observations using the Subaru Telescope, the VISTA Telescope, the UK Infrared Telescope and the Spitzer Space Telescope.