
Giant black-hole pair from the early Universe gives clues to how galaxies form
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Supermassive black holes are typically defined as between a million times the mass of the sun to several billion times. They are very compact compared to galaxies, says U.A. Shen from the University of Illinois at Abana-Champaign. First up on the show this week, reporter Benjamin Thompson learns about a pair of supermassive black holes slowly approaching one another in the distant universe.
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