Supermassive theory vanishes into its own black hole

By Nicky Phillips
Updated January 18 2013 - 7:08am, first published 3:00am
Black holes: a galactic vacuum cleaner.
Black holes: a galactic vacuum cleaner.

A PAIR of Melbourne astronomers have overturned a decade-old theory on how supermassive black holes grow and, in the process, identified the location of a missing population of medium-sized black holes.

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