STADSKANAAL (ANP) - De Inspectie Gezondheidszorg en Jeugd (IGJ) begint een onderzoek naar (jeugd)zorgaanbieders en Veilig Thuis Groningen in Stadskanaal. Daarmee wil de inspectie een beeld krijgen van de kwaliteit en veiligheid van de jeugdhulp aan de kinderen die ernstig zijn mishandeld door twee vrouwen.

De IGJ gaat onder meer informatie opvragen en toezichtbezoeken afleggen aan de betrokken partijen. De inspectie besluit het onderzoek zelf uit te voeren "gezien de aard en de ernst van de meldingen".

De resultaten publiceert de inspectie in een rapport. Afhankelijk van de uitkomst bepaalt de inspectie zelf of vervolgacties nodig zijn.

In dit blog houden we je op de hoogte van het belangrijkste en meest opvallende 112-nieuws van woensdag 27 mei.

In dit blog houden we je op de hoogte van het belangrijkste en meest opvallende 112-nieuws van woensdag 27 mei.

In dit blog houden we je op de hoogte van het belangrijkste en meest opvallende 112-nieuws van woensdag 27 mei.

In dit blog houden we je op de hoogte van het belangrijkste en meest opvallende 112-nieuws van woensdag 27 mei.

In dit blog houden we je op de hoogte van het belangrijkste en meest opvallende 112-nieuws van woensdag 27 mei.

In dit blog houden we je op de hoogte van het belangrijkste en meest opvallende 112-nieuws van woensdag 27 mei.

NASA's decision to halt most science operations on its Swift observatory has paid off. Estimates now put the spacecraft's descent past the point of no return to the end of summer rather than the start. The space agency presented the latest set of re-entry forecasts for the spacecraft, which now point to a descent below the critical altitude of 300 km (185 miles) in September rather than July. The figure is important, since the higher the spacecraft is, the better the chances of a successful rescue mission. Scientists continually update forecasts for the orbital decay of spacecraft. Once a mission is within two years of re-entry, those forecasts are updated more frequently. In November 2023, forecasts suggested Swift was entering that two-year window. Others estimated it would remain in orbit well into the 2030s. However, the outlook changed in 2024 as the Sun reached its solar maximum phase and Earth's atmosphere expanded slightly, increasing drag on Swift. By 2025, the picture was less rosy, with most forecasts estimating the observatory would re-enter by summer 2026. NASA put out a call to industry for a solution, eventually awarding the contract to Katalyst. The forecasts eventually became weekly and were key to deciding when to halt most science operations aboard the spacecraft. They will be equally critical in predicting where Swift will be when the reboost mission is launched. Michael Shoemaker, deputy flight dynamics lead in Space Science Missions Operations at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, said: "These predictions evolve, based on space weather forecasts and other factors like Swift's current height and orientation. "It's also an iterative process with members of Swift's operations team. They determine new ways to point the spacecraft to reduce drag, and we do some new computations to see how much extra time that buys them." Normally, Swift would slow to view targets such as gamma-ray bursts, but earlier this year, the team decided to put the spacecraft in an orientation to minimize atmospheric drag. The hope was that, by doing so, the team would eke out a little more time for the rescue mission, which is currently due for launch in June or July. The decision appears to have paid off. NASA wrote: "According to the most recent predictions, the Swift team's actions will likely keep the spacecraft above the critical altitude into early fall." That's plenty of time for the reboost mission, which, if successful, could add years to the spacecraft's operational lifetime. ®

James Webb Space Telescope posted a photo:

Which came first, galaxies or black holes?

New Webb observations show that some supermassive black holes were enormous from their beginnings, shifting traditional ideas around how black holes form and grow.

Webb looked at an object called QSO1, which existed just 700 million years after the big bang. Despite being more than 13 billion light-years away and only 1300 light-years across, it is relatively easy to study, because its light is being magnified by the gravity of a galaxy cluster that lies between it and us. This object is visible in three different spots (a, b, and c) due to this effect.

QSO1 was observed using a special mode of our Near Infrared Spectrograph that allows us to map data spatially. The result is a map of the motions of the gas that surrounds the black hole, and thus the black hole’s mass - something that was not possible to do before Webb.

The gas around QSO1’s black hole is almost entirely hydrogen and helium, with almost no heavier elements present. Heavier elements are the by-products of star formation, meaning this object isn’t a galaxy rich with stars.

The black hole is immense, ~50 million times the mass of the Sun, and it makes up for two-thirds of the object’s mass. In other nearby galaxies, the supermassive black hole is only a tiny fraction of the host galaxy’s total mass. An object already this massive in the early universe (and without a substantial galaxy surrounding it) wouldn’t have had the time to form its black hole gradually from smaller stellar-mass black holes merging and feeding on nearby material.

It’s possible this is evidence for the existence of types of supermassive black holes that have only been theorized: either primordial black holes that formed in the first second after the birth of the universe; or ones formed directly from the collapse of a large gas cloud. It’s not yet clear from which process QSO1’s black hole resulted, but it was almost certainly born big, and might also be in the early stages of building a galaxy around itself.

Read more: science.nasa.gov/missions/webb/nasas-webb-reveals-black-h...

Credit: Image: NASA, ESA, CSA, Lukas Furtak (Ben-Gurion University); Image Processing: Alyssa Pagan (STScI)

Image description: Space telescope image showing hundreds of bright objects of different size, color, and shape on the black background of space. Colors range from white to deep red. Shapes include elliptical, spiral, dot-like, dash-like, and arcuate. Many of the large objects near the center of the image are fuzzy white, with bright white cores. Many smaller objects scattered throughout the image are pink to red. Three objects in the central part of the image are called out with small white boxes: A box labeled “C” at about 12 o’clock; one labeled “B” at 3 o’clock; and a box labeled “A” at 4 o’clock. Images of the three objects are enlarged in boxes running vertically along the right. From top to bottom these are labeled QSO1A, QSO1B, and QSO1C. At the center of each box is a tiny, circular red dot. QSO1A (top) is notably larger, brighter, and clearer than the other two. QSO1B, in the middle, is smallest and fuzziest, and is somewhat washed out by the light of a larger white object next to it.

James Webb Space Telescope posted a photo:

Which came first, galaxies or black holes?

New Webb observations show that some supermassive black holes were enormous from their beginnings, shifting traditional ideas around how black holes form and grow.

Webb looked at an object called QSO1, which existed just 700 million years after the big bang. Despite being more than 13 billion light-years away and only 1300 light-years across, it is relatively easy to study, because its light is being magnified by the gravity of a galaxy cluster that lies between it and us. This object is visible in three different spots (a, b, and c) due to this effect.

QSO1 was observed using a special mode of our Near Infrared Spectrograph that allows us to map data spatially. The result is a map of the motions of the gas that surrounds the black hole, and thus the black hole’s mass - something that was not possible to do before Webb.

The gas around QSO1’s black hole is almost entirely hydrogen and helium, with almost no heavier elements present. Heavier elements are the by-products of star formation, meaning this object isn’t a galaxy rich with stars.

The black hole is immense, ~50 million times the mass of the Sun, and it makes up for two-thirds of the object’s mass. In other nearby galaxies, the supermassive black hole is only a tiny fraction of the host galaxy’s total mass. An object already this massive in the early universe (and without a substantial galaxy surrounding it) wouldn’t have had the time to form its black hole gradually from smaller stellar-mass black holes merging and feeding on nearby material.

It’s possible this is evidence for the existence of types of supermassive black holes that have only been theorized: either primordial black holes that formed in the first second after the birth of the universe; or ones formed directly from the collapse of a large gas cloud. It’s not yet clear from which process QSO1’s black hole resulted, but it was almost certainly born big, and might also be in the early stages of building a galaxy around itself.

This image: an image detail from NIRCam on NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope shows one of the triple images Webb captured of QSO1, gravitationally lensed by Abell 2744, an enormous mega-cluster of galaxies also known as Pandora’s Cluster.

Pulled out to the right is a map showing the speed that gas is moving toward or away from the telescope (rotational velocity) in different parts of QSO1. The map was made with data collected using NIRSpec’s integral field unit (IFU), a combination of camera and spectrograph. The IFU gathers an image along with 900 spectra from a square patch of sky 3 arcseconds by 3 arcseconds, creating maps showing differences in brightness of thousands of wavelengths between 0.6-micron and 5.3-micron light across the object. The gas velocity is calculated based on Doppler shift: The colors are shifted slightly toward shorter (bluer) wavelengths where material is moving toward us, and longer (redder) wavelengths where it is moving away.

The Webb data shows that the glowing gas has Keplerian rotation: It is orbiting a central point in the same way that planets orbit a star. This means that most of the mass of QSO1 must reside in a single point in the center, i.e., a black hole. Because the velocity of the orbiting gas follows very simple laws of gravity, the data can then be used to calculate the mass of the black hole: It appears to be 50 million solar masses, or 50 million times the mass of our Sun. This is at least two-thirds of the entire mass of QSO1.

Read more: science.nasa.gov/missions/webb/nasas-webb-reveals-black-h...

Credit: Image: NASA, ESA, CSA, Ignas Juodžbalis (Cambridge), Cosimo Marconcini (University of Florence), Roberto Maiolino (Cambridge), Francesco D'Eugenio (Cambridge), Hannah Übler (MPE); Image Processing: Alyssa Pagan (STScI)

Image description: Image at left. Pullout with map on right. Left: Space telescope image labeled QSO1A shows small, red, circular object outlined with white square. Scale bar in bottom left corner labeled 1 arcsecond shows that image is about 4 arcseconds across and object is about 0.4 arcseconds across. Right: Enlarged view of Little Red Dot overlaid with dumbbell-shaped array of pixels ranging in color from blue to orange. Dumbbell shape is vertical, and pixels are oriented at 45 degrees. Below pixels is blue to orange scale bar showing that color of each pixel is related to gas velocity in kilometers per second. Left side of scale bar grades from blue (labeled 20) to gray (labeled 0). Blue arrow pointing left from 0 to 20 beneath left (blue) side of scale bar is labeled toward. Orange arrow pointing right from 0 to 20 beneath the right (orange) side labeled away. Pixels on lower half of dumbbell shape are blue to gray. Most pixels on upper half are orange to gray, but some are blue.