<p>Images from three NASA observatories, including this picture of a blob of gas, have provided evidence that supermassive black holes in the early universe were born from <a href="http://arxiv.org/abs/1603.08522" target="_blank">the direct, rapid collapse of gas clouds</a>.</p>
A Monster Is Born
Images from three NASA observatories, including this picture of a blob of gas, have provided evidence that supermassive black holes in the early universe were born from the direct, rapid collapse of gas clouds.
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