With the help of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, an international team of scientists has found more black holes in the early universe than has previously been reported. The new result can help scientists understand how supermassive black holes were created.
With the help of NASA 's Hubble Space Telescope, an international team of scientists has found more black holes in the early universe than has previously been reported. The new result can help scientists understand how supermassive black holes were created.
"Many of these objects seem to be more massive than we originally thought they could be at such early times -- either they formed very massive or they grew extremely quickly," said Alice Young, a PhD student from Stockholm University and co-author of the study published inBlack holes play an important role in the lifecycle of all galaxies, but there are major uncertainties in our understanding of how galaxies evolve.
"The formation mechanism of early black holes is an important part of the puzzle of galaxy evolution," said Matthew Hayes from the Department of Astronomy at Stockholm University and lead author of the study."Together with models for how black holes grow, galaxy evolution calculations can now be placed on a more physically motivated footing, with an accurate scheme for how black holes came into existence from collapsing massive stars.
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