The scientific discovery was made this week and allows us to draw new conclusions about space.
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) published the capture of one of the clearer photos of a black hole. These were taken with his telescope by James Webb and led to new conclusions about galactic space.
The image is known as RX J1131-1231 and the site is located 6 billion light-years away in the Crater constellation. The space technology discovery is a joint effort by the United States Space Agency and the European Space Agency in addition to Canada.
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What is the black hole in NASA’s sharpest photo?
This body is a cosmic ring known as a quasar and it is a gravitational lensIn Einstein’s theory of relativity this phenomenon was described and it comes to light when a distant object deviates and magnifies by the gravity of another massive element located between the other body and the observer.
The galaxy acts as a gravitational lens which diffuses the light from the background quasar into a bright arc and creates four images of it. As a result, this star became one of the more particular that have been seen.
How NASA’s sharpest photo of a black hole was detected
The image was made possible by a mid-infrared instrument, the MIRI, from the Webb Telescope. It was part of an observation program to study dark matter, the invisible substance that makes up approximately 85% of the total universe.
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