Dark matter could explain the earliest supermassive black holes

Dark matter could explain the earliest supermassive black holes

A growing mystery in astronomy is the presence of gargantuan black holes—some weighing as much as a billion suns—existing less than a billion years after the Big Bang. According to the standard theory of black hole formation, these black holes simply should not have had enough time to grow so large. A study led by University of California, Riverside graduate student Yash Aggarwal shows that dark matter decays could be the key to understanding th…

UCR Research Shows 85% Of Matter Impacts Early Galaxies

UCR research reveals 85% of the universe’s matter, dark matter decay, may explain how massive black holes formed in early galaxies.