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Abstract editorial illustration accompanying the article: Short feeding bursts may explain massive early black holes

Short feeding bursts may explain massive early black holes

Some black holes in the early universe appear unusually massive compared with the galaxies around them. A modelling study suggests that brief, repeated bursts of rapid feeding, triggered by major galaxy mergers, could explain this pattern and the brightness of some active black holes seen by JWST.

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