Gargantua in the Mist: A Precocious Black Hole Behemoth at the Edge of Cosmic Dawn
Artist’s concepts of the most distant supermassive black hole known.Rapidly growing in mass as it is fed by a swirling disk of hot gas and dust,
Credit:Robin Dienel, courtesy of the Carnegie Institution for Science
About the Image
| Id: | noao1707a |
| Type: | Artwork |
| Release date: | Dec. 6, 2017, 1 p.m. |
| Related releases: | noao1707, gemini1711 |
| Size: | 1280 x 700 px |
About the Object
| Category: | Quasars and Black Holes |
