GOODS is intended to enable astronomers to study the formation and evolution of galaxies in the distant, early universe.

The two GOODS fields are the most data-rich areas of the sky in terms of depth and wavelength coverage.

The resulting map covers 30 times the area of the Hubble Deep Field to a photometric magnitude less sensitivity, and has enough resolution to allow the study of 1 kpc-scale objects at redshifts up to 6.

This distance leads to a possible conclusion that due to matter particles exerting gravity on themselves, they would instantly collapse, forming the earliest supermassive black holes that we know of in the center of many galaxies.

Additionally, X-ray radiation is present in these objects, thought to be originating from the hot accretion disk of a collapsing black hole.