The means by which supermassive black holes form and grow have remained largely unclear. Numerical simulations show that the collision of massive galaxies can naturally lead to the creation of these objects.
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Volonteri, M. Making black holes from scratch. Nature 466, 1049–1050 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/4661049a
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