Colliding Galaxies Created the First Super-Massive Black Holes

Astronomers believe they have discovered the origin of our universe?s first super-massive black holes, which formed some 13 billion years ago.


?Together with these other discoveries, our result shows that big structures -- both galaxies and massive black holes -- build up quickly in the history of the universe,? he said. ?Amazingly, this is contrary to hierarchical structure formation.?

The paradox is resolved once one realizes that dark matter grows hierarchically, but ordinar [...]

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