Unlocking the formation of early quasars with Super-Eddington growth

Paris, France (SPX) Nov 21, 2024

New research published in the journal 'Astronomy and Astrophysics' sheds light on how supermassive black holes - millions to billions of times the mass of our Sun - achieved their enormous size within the first billion years after the Big Bang. The study, conducted by scientists at the National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF), analyzed 21 of the most distant quasars ever observed using data fr