Making black holes from scratch

Marta Volonteri
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Marta Volonteri: University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, USA. martav@umich.edu

Nature, 2010, vol. 466, issue 7310, 1049-1050

Abstract: The means by which supermassive black holes form and grow have remained largely unclear. Numerical simulations show that the collision of massive galaxies can naturally lead to the creation of these objects.

Date: 2010
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DOI: 10.1038/4661049a

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