Conventional wisdom tells us that supermassive black holes are found exclusively in massive galaxies undergoing little star formation. But one such object has now been discovered in a star-forming dwarf galaxy. See Letter p.66
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Greene, J. Big black hole found in tiny galaxy. Nature 470, 45–46 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/470045a
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