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Jorge González-López

1 articles · 19 co-authors · latest: 2025-04-18

Weighing the Invisible: A Black Hole in the Early Universe

A team of scientists used light from carbon ions in a distant galaxy to determine the rotation speed of gas around the central object. A sharp acceleration of the gas toward the center pointed to a black hole with a mass of about 6.3 billion Suns. This is the first dynamical weighing of a black hole
arXiv:2504.13409 · 2025-04-18