Surprise: Dwarf galaxy harbors supermassive black hole

Discovery gives important clues about a previously-unobserved, very early phase of galaxy evolution

The surprising discovery of a supermassive black hole in a small nearby galaxy has given astronomers a tantalizing look at how black holes and galaxies may have grown in the early history of the Universe. Finding a black hole a million times more massive than the Sun in a star-forming dwarf galaxy is a strong indication that supermassive black holes formed before the buildup of galaxies, the as [...]

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