Over the past several decades, astronomers have discovered that nearly all large galaxies host a central supermassive black hole millions or billions of times the mass of the Sun. And despite making up only a tiny fraction of the mass of the galaxy that houses it, these black holes and their galactic hosts are closelyContinue reading “Even ‘lonely’ galaxies can host snacking supermassive black holes”

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