Department of Astronomy at UMass Amherst

M87's black hole

M87’s Black Hole

UMass Amherst researchers are part of team that captured the first-ever image of a black hole

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Kate Whitaker and Team Investigate Oldest Galaxies

Whitaker’s team devised an innovative pairing of telescopes to better understand why some of the oldest, most massive galaxies go quiescent early in their formation. The team used the Hubble Space Telescope, which sees ultraviolet to near-infrared light, including the light we can see with our own eyes, to detect these distant galaxies, which are so far away that we’re only just now seeing the light they emitted 10 billion to 12 billion years ago, when the universe was in its infancy. In effect, Whitaker’s team is looking into the deep past. 

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