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Black Hole Bonanza: StarTalk Live! With Janna Levin and Jenny Greene

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The Supermassive Black Hole

We don't even know what mechanism could create such an object. So with the 10-ish sun black holes, we actually... That's just a dead fat star. That is the death of a star. And then these things up to 100, they seem to be probably the mergers of those. But that still leaves a big space between 100 and 100,000 or a million, and we just have no idea. We just don't know.

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