When galaxies collide: How the first super-massive black holes were born

Thursday, August 26, 2010 - 00:08 in Astronomy & Space

Astronomers believe they have discovered the origin of our universe's first super-massive black holes, which formed some 13 billion years ago. The discovery fills in a missing chapter of our universe's early history, and could help write the next chapter -- in which scientists better understand how gravity and dark matter formed the universe as we know it.

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