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Tuesday, December 13, 2011

'Time Machine' Shows How Black Holes Quickly Became Supermassive After Big Bang

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Scientists at Carnegie Mellon University's Bruce and Astrid McWilliams Center for Cosmology using GigaPan Time Machine computer technology, have discovered that the rapid growth of early supermassive black holes was caused by thin streams of cold gas flowing uncontrolled into the center of the first black holes, causing them to grow faster than anything else in the universe.

In the early days of the universe, a mere 700 to 800 million years after the Big Bang, most things were small. The first stars and galaxies were just beginning to form and grow in isolated parts of the universe. According to astrophysical theory, black holes found during this era also should be small in proportion with the galaxies in which they reside. However, recent observations from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) have shown that this isn't the case — enormous supermassive black holes existed as early as 700 million years after the Big Bang.

Read More: http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2011/12/time-machine-shows-how-black-holes-became-supermassive-after-big-bang.html

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