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How did supermassive black holes get so big so fast just after the Big Bang?
Scientists now understand that supermassive black holes lurk at the heart of most, if not all, galaxies. These cosmic titans have masses millions and even billions of times that of the sun, yet tremendous size doesn't constitute a problem when supermassive black holes are seen in the local universe and thus more recent in cosmic history.
Supermassive black holes become an issue, however, when they are seen in the early universe, and they already have masses equivalent to billions of suns. That is because there must be some mechanism that allows supermassive black holes to rapidly gather mass and grow to such giant sizes, yet all the existing mechanisms for this growth suggest this process proceeds too slowly for objects like this to exist just after the Big Bang.
"Over the last two decades, astronomers have found supermassive black holes with the same masses as in the local and thus more recent universe — billions of solar masses — almost 13 billion years ago, less than a billion years after the Big Bang," Royal Society University Research Fellow at Maynooth University John Reagan told Space.com.
Regan describes the problem with a somewhat disturbing a
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Sadler's Wells Theatre
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Center Theatre Group Los Angeles
Best Modern Choreography - Winner
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Special Olivier Award
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Honorary Degree of Doctor of Letters -University of Oxford 2018
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Critics' Circle Distinguished Service to Art Award
December 2016
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Knighthood for Services to Dance
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2015
Primio Ravenna Festival 2015
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