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An international team of astronomers have unexpectedly found hundreds of expanding "supermassive" black holes buried deep inside galaxies billions of light years from Earth. The astounding discovery is the first direct evidence that most -- perhaps all -- huge galaxies in the far reaches of the universe generated cavernous black holes during their youth, when about 3.5 billion years old. Scientists generally agree that the universe as we perceive it came into being about 14 billion years ago. The findings more than double the total number of black holes known to exist at that distance, and suggest that there were hundreds of millions more growing in the early universe. Source : Yahoo News
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