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Flipboard Science Desk (sciencedesk@flipboard.social)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Jun-2024 04:15:14 JST Flipboard Science Desk

Astronomers believe that at the heart of most, if not all, galaxies sits a titanic black hole with a mass that is millions or even billions of times that of our sun. How they grew to such great size may be the result of a chain of mergers of successively larger and larger black holes. Not only that, but black holes “born from the collision of other black holes contain information with them about their properties from their ancestors, including their ancestors’ spin as well as their mass,” said Imre Bartos of the University of Florida Department of Physics. Phys.org has more: https://flip.it/cve.eG
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  Astronomers believe that at the heart of most, if not all, galaxies sits a titanic black hole with a mass that is millions or even billions of times that of our sun. These supermassive black holes cannot be directly created through the collapse of a massive star, as is the case with stellar mass black holes with masses tens of times that of the sun, as no star is large enough to birth such a huge object.

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