A jet of matter that was formed when the universe had 10 % of its current age and that covers, at least 200,000 light years away, twice the size of the Milky Way, has been identified by a collaboration of astronomers and telescopes .
With this discovery, New data about when the first jets (Jets) were formed in the universe and how they influenced the evolution of the galaxies.
The quasars are very bright nuclei of distant galaxies, which are fed by supermassive black holes inside and unleash a radiation torrent.
Those quasars emit powerful jets of energy matter that can be detected with radio telescopes at large distances. This phenomenon is relatively common in the nearby universe, but in the early and distant they have been much more difficult to find.
The radio jet now discovered has two lobes and is the greatest never seen before in the early universe, an important discovery to better understand the moment and the mechanisms of formation of the first giant jets of our universe.
The Cuásar J1601+3102, which feeds the Jet now discovered, was formed when the universe had only 9 % of his current age, according to a study that publishes The Astrophysical Journal Letters.
The previous scarcity of radio jets in the primitive universe is attributed to the cosmic microwave background radiation, a kind of mistake always present of microwave radiation that remained of the Big Bang and reduces the radio light of such distant objects.
The new Jet “can be seen from the earth even if it is far away, just because it is something very extreme,” said Anniek Gloumans, one of the signatories of the study, according to a statement from the National Laboratory of Research in Optical-Infrarh Astronomy ( Noirlab) one of those who collaborated in the discovery.
This object “shows what we can discover by combining the power of multiple telescopes operating at different wavelengths,” added the scientist.
Scientists still have many questions about how radiobrillating quasars such as J1601+3102 differ from others and the circumstances necessary to create such powerful radio jets are not clear, nor when the first formed the first in the universe.