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10/04/22 17:18 PM IST

HD1: Most Distant Galaxy Ever Seen

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  • A galaxy named HD1 might be the most distant object that has ever been spotted by astronomers.
  • The brightness of this galaxy might be due to an enormous black hole that is at its centre or due to the creation of large primordial stars.
About HD1
  • The galaxy HD1 was discovered by Fabio Pacucci along with his colleagues at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Massachusetts.
  • Those observations have shown that the newly discovered galaxy is around 33.4 billion light-years away, and over a billion light-years further than the previously discovered most distant object, a galaxy called GN-z11.
  • The age of the universe is about 13.8 billion years as the universe is constantly expanding whereas the distance of this galaxy is much further.
  • This newly discovered galaxy is extraordinarily bright in terms of ultraviolet wavelengths, which means that whatever is producing the is extremely hot.
Source- Indian Express 

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