Farthest Galaxy Ever Confirmed | COSMOS in a minute #46

The farthest galaxy ever confirmed in the universe is called HD1. It’s so far away that even its light took 13.5 billion years to reach us. HD1 is extremely faint and small, but its light has been stretched by the expansion of the universe to make it visible to us today. Remarkably, HD1 births about 100 stars yearly, three times the Milky Way's pace.. It’s unclear what is causing this distant galaxy to form stars at such a high rate. It’s also possible that the galaxy houses a supermassive black hole, but to produce such a luminosity, it needs to be around 100 million times the Sun’s mass. Astronomers hope to solve the enigma of this galaxy using the Webb Telescope. For more videos of Cosmos in a minute, follow The Secrets of the Universe.