Size does matter after scientists realise supermassive black holes aren’t that big

Supermassive black holes, the hungry hungry hippos of the universe, aren’t actually that supermassive, apparently.

Black holes are mysterious regions in space where gravity is so strong, they can even swallow up light.

With every planet, star and piece of cosmic dirt they eat, black holes grow larger and larger.

Supermassive black holes are where the equivalent of millions of suns have been squeezed into a ball and tend to be the centre of galaxies in our cosmic neighbourhood. Scientists, however, have never quite been so sure how they wind up so supermassive.

But ‘massive’ might be more accurate to say, humbling research has found.

Astronomers from the University of Southampton have been examining an infant galaxy 12 billion light-years away with a new telescope.

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