Feeding supermassive black holes are more common than thought across the universe

An illustration of the region surrounding a feeding supermassive black hole. What could possibly hide such a ravenous cosmic titan?.

The universe could be packed with many more monstrous black holes ravenously feeding on their surrounding material than previously suspected.

That's the conclusion of a team of scientists, who theorize that astronomers could be missing between 30% to 50% of feeding supermassive black holes, cosmic titans that have masses equivalent to millions or even billions of suns.