Dwarf galaxies give clues to origin of supermassive black holes
Wednesday, January 8, 2014 - 09:30
in Astronomy & Space
(Phys.org) —Poring through data from a large sky survey, astronomers have found more than 100 small, dwarf galaxies with characteristics indicating that they harbor massive black holes feeding on surrounding gas. The discovery confounds a common assumption that only much larger galaxies hold such monsters and may help resolve the question of how such black holes originated and grew in the early universe.