Baby Black Holes Zigzagged, Ate a Lot to Become Quasars

Monday, August 11, 2014 - 15:30 in Astronomy & Space

Giant quasars from shortly after the Big Bang are a mystery: how could a small black hole get so large, so quickly? The Weizmann Institute's Prof. Tal Alexander and Yale's Prof. Priyamvada Natarajan have a theory: the hungry, newborn black hole moved around and ate everything in sight.

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