Researcher from "Universidad de Concepción" discovered black holes in early galaxies in the Univers
An international team of astronomers led by Professor Ezequiel Treister (Universidad de Concepción) confirmed the existence of supermassive black holes in the early galaxies and the fact that they grow in relation to the size of the galaxy where they are.
The discovery was made using the Chandra X-ray Observatory. Chandra gives astronomers a powerful tool to investigate the universe, especially those hot spots where black holes, exploding stars and colliding galaxies are most likely to live. Since the Earth‘s atmosphere absorbs the vast majority of X-rays, they are not detectable from Earth-based telescopes, requiring a space-based telescope to make these observations. Chandra launched in 1999 aboard the Columbia during the STS-93 mission.
Astrophysicists Ezequiel Triester is an astrophysicist for the Institute for Astronomy at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. He has a doctorate in astronomy from the Universidad de Chile, two masters degrees in astronomy from Yale University and a bachelors in physics, also from Universidad de Chile, Currently he is workindg as a researcher of the Astronomy Departament at Universidad de Concepción.
For more information send an email to Paulina Hernández journalist at Astronomy Departament, Universidad de Concepción,
1.- phernandez@astro-udec.cl
2.- paulinahernandezj@gmail.com
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