A rare quasar, a bright jet of light bursting from the turbulent core of the vacuum, is hosted by a cluster of galaxies that are merging around a gigantic black hole in a spectacular image taken by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope.
Andrey Vayner, an astronomer at Johns Hopkins University and co-author of a report on the situation that will shortly be published in the Astrophysical Journal Letters, stated that “we think something spectacular is likely to happen in these systems.” For the time being, a comprehensive account of the discovery may be obtained in an article posted on arXiv, according to CNET.
Being a “very red” quasar, which means it is exceedingly far away from us and so physically rooted in the region of space at the beginning of time, makes this situation exceptionally fascinating.
In essence, every stream of cosmic light that reaches our eyes and our devices is perceived as it was a very long time ago since light takes time to travel through space. When we look at the Moon, it is 1.3 seconds in the past since even moonlight takes 1.3 seconds to reach Earth.
The research team stated it quickly became apparent that the Webb telescope revealed at least three distinct galaxies moving extremely quickly. In fact, they speculate that it might be one of the densest locations of galaxy formation in the early cosmos.
