Turns Out the First Supermassive Black Holes Weren’t So Supermassive, Research Suggests
All galaxies have a supermassive black hole at their center. A new finding doesn’t contradict that observation, but it does suggest that we’ve been overestimating just how heavy some of these black holes actually are. Astrophysicists using the Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile found evidence that the black hole of an infant galaxy was ten times smaller than what theoretical models predicted. If they can find similar behavior in other galaxies, it would mean that we’re even more blind to the d