Looking back in time to watch for a different kind of black hole
Wednesday, September 19, 2018 - 10:00
in Astronomy & Space
Black holes form when stars die, allowing the matter in them to collapse into an extremely dense object from which not even light can escape. Astronomers theorize that massive black holes could also form at the birth of a galaxy, but so far nobody has been able to look far enough back in time to observe the conditions creating these direct collapse black holes (DCBH).