An international team of astronomers led by The University of Texas at Austin’s Cosmic Frontier Center has confirmed the most distant black hole ever observed. Located at the center of the galaxy CAPERS-LRD-z9, this black hole existed 13.3 billion years ago, just 500 million years after the Big Bang. As such, it provides a unique opportunity to study the structure and evolution of the period known as
In 2024, an international team of astronomers launched the CANDELS-Area Prism Epoch of Reionization Survey (CAPERS), a program that would use data from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to identify galaxies at "Cosmic Dawn." This cosmological per... [5353 chars]