Supermassive black holes, or SMBHs, are black holes with masses that are several million to billion times the mass of our sun.
The Milky Way hosts an SMBH with mass a few million times the solar mass.
Surprisingly, astrophysical observations show that SMBHs already existed when the universe was very young.
For example, a billion solar mass black holes are found when the universe was just 6% of its current age, 13.7 billion years.
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The Milky Way hosts an SMBH with mass a few million times the solar mass.
Surprisingly, astrophysical observations show that SMBHs already existed when the universe was very young.
For example, a billion solar mass black holes are found when the universe was just 6% of its current age, 13.7 billion years.
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