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MIT astronomers observe elusive stellar light surrounding ancient quasars. The observations suggest some of earliest “monster” black holes grew from massive cosmic seeds.


MIT astronomers observed the elusive starlight surrounding some of the earliest quasars in the universe. The findings may shed light on how the earliest supermassive black holes became so massive despite having a relatively short amount of cosmic time in which to grow.

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