Black holes have been growing faster than previously thought, the new research found. Gabriel Perez Diaz

Scientists pinpoint missing mid‑sized black holes

Australian researchers have redefined the relationship between galaxies and their black holes, showing that a widely-accepted method for calculating the mass of smaller black holes was wrong. The breakthrough…
For a number of reasons – not least its ‘overmassive’ black hole – NGC 1277 is a little different to other galaxies. David W. Hogg, Michael Blanton, and the SDSS Collaboration

An ‘overmassive’ black hole that breaks all the rules – so what?

Supermassive black holes weighing millions or billions of times as much as our sun appear to be ubiquitous in large galaxies. We don’t fully understand how these supermassive black holes form and grow…

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