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New study suggests Supermassive Black Holes could form from Dark Matter

New study suggests supermassive black holes could form from dark matter
Artist’s impression of a spiral galaxy embedded in a larger distribution of invisible dark matter, known as a dark matter halo (colored in blue). Studies looking at the formation of dark matter haloes have suggested that each halo could harbor a very dense nucleus of dark matter, which may potentially mimic the effects of a central black hole, or eventually collapse to form one. Credit ESO/L. Calçada, CC BY 4.0

A new theoretical study has proposed a novel mechanism for the creation of supermassive black holes from dark matter. The international team find that rather than the conventional formation scenarios involving ‘normal’ matter, supermassive black holes could instead form directly from dark matter in high density regions in the centers of galaxies...

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