GN-z11

High school (ages 12+)
Space & Astronomy

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Step 1 · Read the article

Open the article and read it at the level above. Then answer the questions below in your own words.

https://smallwhale.org/articles/gn-z11

Write what each word means, using the article.

Do not copy the article. Write two things you learned, the way you would explain them to a friend.

Answers below are taken from the article’s stored facts, so they match what the student read.

1. Who discovered GN-z11?2015
2. How heavy is GN-z11?Estimated at 1.6 million solar masses
3. What is the primary discoverers?Pascal Oesch, Gabriel Brammer, and the Cosmic Dawn Center team
4. What is the light-travel distance?Approximately 13.4 billion light-years

Cosmological Redshift: The stretching of light due to the expansion of spacetime itself, indicating vast distances.
Spectroscopic Redshift: A precise measurement of redshift determined by analyzing spectral lines in an object's light.
Supermassive Black Hole: A black hole with a mass millions to billions of times that of the Sun, found at the center of most galaxies.
Angular Diameter Distance: A measure of distance related to how large an object appears in the sky relative to its actual size.