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Black Holes in Central Park

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What Is a Super Massive Black Hole?

In our galaxy alone, there should be at least 10 million stellar mass black holes. One out of a thousand stars is massive enough to become a black hole and there are like 100 billion stars in the Milky Way galaxy. Some studies suggest that super massive black holes form through collisions. The seeds of these really massive black holes would have been something called a primordial black hole from very early in the universe.

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