A new theoretical study has proposed a novel mechanism for the creation of supermassive black holes from dark matter. The international team find that rather than the conventional formation scenarios involving normal matter, supermassive black holes could instead form directly from dark matter in high density regions in the centres of galaxies. The result has key implications for cosmology in the early Universe, and is published in
Supermassive black holes could be formed out of dark matter, a new study has suggested. The research aims to address the mystery over the gargantuan cosmic objects: the seemingly impossible problem how exactly they form, and so quickly. Researchers have observed supermassive black holes as early as 800 million years after the Big Bang. It is not clear how they could form in such little time, or how they were initially created. Usually,.