Supermassive Black Holes Formed Directly out of Enormous Streams of Cold gas - by BrianKoberlein
At the edge of known space are quasars. They are powerful cosmic engines capable of creating intense beams of light across billions of light years. And they are powered by supermassive black holes . Most galaxies have a SMBH, including our own galaxy, but for quasars to be so powerful their SMBHs must have become very large very quickly. We’re still learning just how they formed.
The biggest mystery about quasars is their youth and power. In the past couple decades, astronomers have discovered quasars so distant that they must have have been active less than a billion years after the big bang. Their intense power indicated that they must be billions of solar masses in size. How could such massive objects form so quickly in the early universe?.
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