Astronomers have discovered a supermassive black hole creating a very bright quasar, which, like its kind, could help turn on light in the early Universe. The study's findings may help explain how the cosmic dark ages of the early universe came to an end and how supermassive black holes grew very quickly in a relatively short period of time more than 13 billion years ago.. The study was published in Astrophysical Journal Letters, writes Space.

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Supermassive black holes, which have millions and even billions of times the mass of the Sun, are believed to have arisen from a series of mergers of smaller black holes and the active absorption of large amounts of matter.. The problem is that current models show that it takes at least 1 billion years to create a supermassive black hole.. But astronomers have already discovered such giant black holes that existed less than a billion years after the Big Bang and this is a big mystery.

Scientists have discovered a new bright quasar created by a supermassive black hole, called CFHQS J142952+54471 (J1429+5447). It is so far from us that the quasar's light traveled to the solar system for 13 billion years.. That is, the quasar existed already 800 million years after the Big Bang. At the same time, astronomers have found that a supermassive black hole releases a jet of plasma.

Scientists estimate that the supermassive black hole has a mass of approximately 200 million solar masses and existed during a period of cosmic history known as the Age of Reionization.

The period of 1.1 billion years after the Big Bang is called the cosmic dark ages.. About 380,000 years after the birth of the universe, electrons and protons combined and atoms were created. The disappearance of free electrons meant that photons, that is, particles of light, could freely move across space over long distances. That is, space went from being opaque to light to suddenly becoming transparent..

At the same time, as the Universe evolved, more neutral hydrogen atoms appeared in it, which began to absorb light. This caused the universe to plunge back into darkness and the cosmic dark ages began.. The era of reionization is believed to have lasted between 680 million years ago and 1.1 billion years ago.. At this time, high-energy light began to strip electrons from hydrogen ions, allowing photons to travel freely through space again.

It is believed that ultraviolet light from the first stars began the process of reionization, but the authors of a new study concluded that actively feeding supermassive black holes were also involved.

When supermassive black holes actively consume surrounding matter, they create extremely bright quasars. They glow due to intense friction and heating of gas in the accretion disks surrounding the black hole.. At the same time, black holes eject matter that they did not absorb in the form of jets.

Scientists have concluded that the very first quasars in the early Universe provided energy for the process of reionization of neutral hydrogen.

This research not only reveals the secrets of the reionization era, but may also help reveal how supermassive black holes became so huge less than 1 billion years after the birth of the universe..

As Focus already wrote, physicists have discovered a new unusual state of matter. Scientists have been trying to discover the strange quantum state of matter for 20 years, and they finally managed to do it..

Focus also wrote that scientists have proposed a new model of the initial accelerated expansion of the Universe, which does not imply the presence of a new quantum field.