Astronomers overshadowed in the past sverhmassivnyh the emergence of black holes

The new observations of astronomers, sverhmassivnye black holes in galactic nuclei, there are already two billion years after the Big Bang, reports Nature News. The work of scientists published in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomy Society.

The opening was done with the help of space telescope Spitzer "(Spitzer) and submillimetre array of radio telescopes located in an extinct volcano Mauna Kea in Hawaii, while observing an object 4C60.07. Astronomers have determined that it was a unifying two galaxies. Analysis of radiation showed that their centers are located sverhmassivnye black holes.

The black holes - objects so with such a strong gravitational field that even light is unable to leave him. Currently, confirmed the existence of two classes of objects: black holes and sverhmassivnyh stellar mass black holes. The first formed as a result of the gravitational collapse of a star shell after it ends "fuel". Sami hole does not radiate, but the matter accretion disk surrounding the hole, with the absorption of dispersed and emits electromagnetic radiation. Currently, it is believed that black holes are formed from a second-class holes in first class as a result of prolonged absorption of matter (most recently even found Limit the growth of black holes).

The object 4C60.07 located at a distance of 12 billion light-years away, that is, the light of these objects, observed on Earth, galaxies emitted when the universe was "only" about two billion years old.

The new results allow astronomers to argue that sverhmassivnye black holes have appeared in the universe at about the same time with the galaxies. Earlier, there were theories that linked the formation of holes in the existing star clusters.