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28: How to Kill a Galaxy

The Supermassive Podcast

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Does Dark Matter End Up Growing the Black Hall?

Dark matter does kick start the formation of stars, so youe got to be thankfe fo the dark matter for that. If it wasn't, there literally thre's not enough matter to clump together to get it dense enough to form stars. O similly, it helps to keep the galaxy bound, and essentially increases what we call the gravitationar potential of that area in space. And if you have galaxies clustered together as well, it keeps those bound, because it adds extra mass into the area  and helps them clump together in this halo of dark matter. We roughly think about ten % of the mass in soupr mass of black coals could come from

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