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Priya Natarajan on Black Holes and Mapping the Universe

The Joy of x

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What Are the First Black Hole Seeds?

We believe when the universe was maybe, like, not even a billion years old, right? And all the way to to day. So if the universe we're saying now is 13 point eight billion years old or somethingas youre saying, this could be at any time. Or we're inin the galaxy. We're already sain inside a galaxy. These are galaxies that have assembled already, ok. There are stars. The first black holes were probably made from dead stars and they left little black holes behind as part of their formation. But there's still a lot of gas amongst the stores,. sitting in the centre of a galaxy, becauseyou know, it's the reservoirs.

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