Sentences with phrase «rate than black holes»

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In effect, if the first quasars grew from Population III black hole seeds, they would have had to eat faster than the Eddington rate.

To get so big in less than a billion years, the seed black holes must have sucked in gas at a colossal rate.

«There's a maximum rate at which a black hole can feed — if you try and stuff more material than the maximum, the black hole basically rejects it; it's a picky eater,» Mushotzky adds.

The supermassive black hole at the center of NGC 4258 is about ten times larger than the one in the Milky Way, and is also consuming material at a faster rate, potentially increasing its impact on the evolution of its host galaxy.

The halos around quasars — the brightest and the most active objects in the universe, they are galaxies formed less than 2 billion years after the Big Bang; they have supermassive black holes in their centers and consume stars, gas, interstellar dust and other material at a very fast rate — are made of gas known as the intergalactic medium and extend for up to 300,000 light - years from the centers of the quasars.