Hundreds of "missing" black holes have been found lurking in dusty galaxies billions of light-years away

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Hundreds of "missing" black holes have been found lurking in dusty galaxies billions of light-years away

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 I can barely wrap my head around the thought of things like black holes, but I find this stuff really fascinating and thought I would share the article for those who have not seen it. I am not even going to try to write my own description. here is a snippet and a link to Space.com for the rest.

"Active, supermassive black holes were everywhere in the early universe," said study team member Mark Dickinson of the National Optical Astronomy Observatory in Tuscon, Ariz. "We had seen the tip of the iceberg before in our search for these objects. Now, we can see the iceberg itself." 

The finding, detailed in two studies published in the Nov. 10 issue of Astrophysical Journal, is the first direct evidence that most, if not all, massive galaxies in the distant universe spent their youths constructing supermassive black holes at their cores. 

Read the rest of the article at http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/071025-missing-bholes.html

Source: Space.com