Astronomers Detect the Most Distant Galaxy Ever Observed

Astronomers Detect , the Most Distant Galaxy, Ever Observed.

Astronomy.com reports that astronomers have discovered a distant galaxy named HD1 that is now the farthest object detected in the cosmos.

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HD1 is located approximately 13.5 billion light-years away.

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It existed , 330 million years, after the Big Bang.

Scientists believe that the distant galaxy also contains either Population III stars or the earliest supermassive black hole ever detected.

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Astronomy.com reports that HD1 appears extremely bright in ultraviolet light.

Ultraviolet is usually evidence that a galaxy is producing a high number of stars, but the brightness of HD1 would suggest it was creating over 100 stars every year.

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Astronomers believe, it could be the result , of one of two historic possibilities.

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Population III stars are , the first generation of stars , born following the Big Bang.

They are much more massive, luminous and hotter than stars created today, but they also have never been observed as they burn out and die quickly.

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The other explanation for the brightness of HD1 could be the earliest known supermassive black hole, which would beat the previous record by 500 million years.

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Forming a few hundred million years after the Big Bang, a black hole in HD1 must have grown out of a massive seed at an unprecedented rate.

, Avi Loeb, MNRAS co-author, via Astronomy.com