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News | 12.01.2011

Yale discovery of ‘young’ supermassive black holes challenges current theory

The discovery raises the possibility that this type of black hole continues to form billions of years after the Big Bang, challenging current theory. Astronomers previously thought all supermassive black holes emerged soon after the birth of the universe 13.7 billion years ago...

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Image Credits: (header) European Space Agency & NASA; (left) Kevin Schwinski, Yale University - Hubble Space Telescope; (background) NASA, ESA and H.E. Bond (STScI)

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