Seeds of Monster Black Holes Were Surprisingly Big

Friday, March 28, 2014 - 11:20 in Astronomy & Space

The central black holes in dwarf galaxies — the "seeds" that grow into the monsters at the core of the Milky Way and other large galaxies — are probably surprisingly weighty, containing 1,000 to 10,000 times the mass of our sun, a new study reports.

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