
Where are all the medium-sized black holes?
Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe
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Is There a Supermassive Black Hole?
We don't know how the big ones got as big as they did. We'd love to understand how these supermassive black holes formed. And so finding one like when it was a child might really give us a clue as to how they formed. Or if we could prove that they never were children, they were fully born an supermassive black hole in one fell swoop. That is a possibility,. maybe they were made super big in the big bank as primordial black holes, or through direct collapse. There are some mechanisms to make these things and skip that intermediate face, right?
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