by The Universe’s very first black holes, thought to have formed from the collapse of the first stars, must have grown very fast to reach masses of a billion suns within the first 0.9 billion years of the Universe’s life.
But astronomers have struggled to explain how sufficiently large amounts of ‘black hole fuel’ could have been available to enable these objects to grow to such enormous sizes in such a short time.
The newfound web-like structure around SDSS J1030+0524 offers a likely explanation: the web and the galaxies within it contain enough gas to provide the fuel that the central black hole needs to quickly become a supermassive giant.
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But astronomers have struggled to explain how sufficiently large amounts of ‘black hole fuel’ could have been available to enable these objects to grow to such enormous sizes in such a short time.
The newfound web-like structure around SDSS J1030+0524 offers a likely explanation: the web and the galaxies within it contain enough gas to provide the fuel that the central black hole needs to quickly become a supermassive giant.
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