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How Did Black Holes Get So Big, So Fast? The Answer Lies in the Dark


Radiation from dark matter in the early universe may have kept hydrogen gas hot enough to condense into black holes. Supermassive black holes typically take billions of years to form. But the James Webb Space Telescope is finding them not that long after the Big Bang — before they should have h

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