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Black holes growing faster than expected

Started by Waspie_Dwarf , Jan 17 2013 01:50 AM

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Posted 17 January 2013 - 01:50 AM

Black holes growing faster than expected

Swinburne University of Technology said:

Astronomers from Swinburne University of Technology have discovered how supermassive black holes grow - and it's not what was expected.

For years, scientists had believed that supermassive black holes, located at the centres of galaxies, increased their mass in step with the growth of their host galaxy. However, new observations have revealed a dramatically different behaviour.

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