Artist’s impression of a black hole during one of its short periods of rapid growth (IMAGE)

University of Cambridge

Artist’s impression of a black hole during one of its short periods of rapid growth

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A study in Nature finds that black holes in the early Universe go through short periods of ultra-fast growth, followed by long periods of dormancy. 

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Jiarong Gu

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