Supermassive black hole ancestor was hiding in plain sight - Futurity: Research News

A newly discovered celestial object can be viewed as an ancestor of supermassive black holes. It was born relatively soon after the Big Bang.

For the first time, scientists have found the ancestor of a supermassive black hole. The researchers identified a distant object with properties that lie between those of a galaxy and those of a so-… [+4654 chars]

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