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Artist’s Illustration of GNz7q

Illustration of center of dusty, red spiral galaxy with a bright nucleus.

This is an artist's illustration of a supermassive black hole that is inside the dust-shrouded core of a vigorously star-forming "starburst" galaxy. It will eventually become an extremely bright quasar once the dust is gone. The research team believes that the object, discovered in a Hubble deep-sky survey, could be the evolutionary "missing link" between quasars and starburst galaxies. The dusty black hole dates back to only 750 million years after the big bang.

  • Release Date
    April 13, 2022
  • Science Release
    Hubble Sheds Light on Origins of Supermassive Black Holes
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  • Credit
    NASA, ESA, N. Bartmann

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Mar 28, 2025
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Claire Andreoli
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