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Paul Sutter

Ultralight dark matter may have helped monstrous black holes form in the early universe

Artist’s illustration of a supermassive black hole at the heart of a galaxy.

Dark matter may have contributed to the formation of giant black holes in the early universe, researchers propose in a new paper.

More observations, especially with the James Webb Space Telescope, are revealing truly gigantic black holes that appeared in the relatively young universe. Just a few hundred million years after the Big Bang, it would appear our cosmos was already home to black holes billions of times more massive than the sun.

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