The Early Universe Helps Black Holes Grow Big, But Not In The Long Run

Illustration of a black hole growing at an extremely fast (super-Eddington) rate. Credit: NOIRLab/AURA/NSF/P. Marenfeld

Cosmic inflation helps black holes grow quickly, but it can’t explain how supermassive black holes grew to billions of solar masses in less than 500 million years.

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