An article published in “The Astrophysical Journal” reports the discovery of what could set the new record for the most distant known galaxy. A team of researchers used various telescopes to observe this object, cataloged as HD1, whose distance has been estimated to be about 13.5 billion light-years from Earth.

In another article, published in the journal “Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Letters”, some of the researchers offer some theories about HD1. It could be a so-called starburst galaxy with an extraordinary star formation star which could include the first generation of stars in the universe or a quasar powered by the oldest known supermassive black hole.