The search for seeds of black holes
Thursday, March 27, 2014 - 06:30
in Astronomy & Space
(Phys.org) —How do you grow a supermassive black hole that is a million to a billion times the mass of our sun? Astronomers do not know the answer, but a new study using data from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, has turned up what might be the cosmic seeds from which a black hole will sprout. The results are helping scientists piece together the evolution of supermassive black holes—powerful objects that dominate the hearts of all galaxies.