Monster black holes

Abstract

A combination of ground-based and spacecraft observations has uncovered two black holes of 10 billion solar masses in the nearby Universe. The finding sheds light on how these cosmic monsters co-evolve with galaxies.

arXiv comment2 pages, 1 figure, LaTeX. Published in Nature "News & Views"

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