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dest_titor1
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/spitzer/...r-20080110.html

NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has detected plump black holes where least expected -- skinny galaxies.

Like people, galaxies come in different shapes and sizes. There are thin spirals both with and without central bulges of stars, and more rotund ellipticals that are themselves like giant bulges. Scientists have long held that all galaxies except the slender, bulgeless spirals harbor supermassive black holes at their cores. Furthermore, bulges were thought to be required for black holes to grow.
(Moonlight)
That's strange... I don't have time to read the article, but when a black hole is created, doesn't all this matter collaps (sp?) in on itself? In a skinny galaxy there probably wouldn't be enough matter in one place.

I'm puzzled. :S
davesam
man,y these black holes are present in many places
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