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Powerful black holes might grow up in bustling galactic neighborhoods

  • Written by Jaclyn Champagne, JASPER Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Arizona
Powerful black holes might grow up in bustling galactic neighborhoodsA quasar is a galactic object with a supermassive black hole in the center. International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/P. Marenfeld, CC BY-NC-SA

As people, we are all shaped by the neighborhoods we grew up in, whether it was a bustling urban center or the quiet countryside. Objects in distant outer space are no different.

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