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GN-z11

Galaxy · High-redshift galaxy in the constellation Ursa Major

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GN-z11
Picture: NASA, ESA, P. Oesch (Yale University), G. Brammer (STScI), P. van Dokkum (Yale University), and G. Illingworth (University of California, Santa Cruz), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

About GN-z11

The light we see from it set out 13.4 billion years ago, when the universe was 0.435 billion years old (redshift 10.6).

The map lists it as a galaxy and shows it at the scale of the large-scale universe, drawn on the supergalactic plane.

The most distant galaxy known before JWST; hosts an active black hole of about 1.6 million suns.

Key numbers

Distance (comoving, today)31.8 billion light-years (9,762 Mpc)
Redshift z10.6
Light travel time13.4 billion years
Universe's age when this light left0.435 billion years
Distance methodredshift (Planck 2018 cosmology)
Supergalactic coordinatesSGL 54.8°, SGB +11.7°

Where it is

Its place in the universe, from the inside out: Observable universe.

Zoom out to see it in context: Observable universe, a view about 100 billion light-years across.

From Wikipedia

GN-z11 is a high-redshift galaxy discovered by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope in the constellation Ursa Major. It is among the farthest galaxies from Earth ever found. The 2015 discovery was published in a 2016 paper headed by Pascal Oesch and Gabriel Brammer.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article GN-z11, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

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