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“Until recently, the thinking by many has been that supermassive black holes got their start from the merging of numerous, small black holes in the universe,” says astrophysicist Mitchell Begelman. “This new model of black hole development indicates a possible alternate route to their formation.” Begelman has calculated how supermassive stars might have formed, as well as the masses of their cores.
COLORADO (US)—The first large black holes in the universe likely formed and grew deep inside gigantic, starlike cocoons that smothered their powerful x-ray radiation and prevented surrounding gases from being blown away. Continue…
