First supergiant stars had giant black hole kids

• Autores: Leah Crane
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3116, 2017, pág. 9
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • In principle, stars can gain mass faster than black holes. Joseph Smidt at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico and his colleagues say this could explain the presence of supermassive black holes so early on. If a star of around 100,000 solar masses collapses, it could form a substantial black hole right away. Fed by streams of cold gas, that black hole could grow at a more stately pace to reach a billion solar masses within the first billion years of the universe