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Release No.: 2016-15
For Release: Wednesday, July 6, 2016 - 10:30am
A New Kind of Black Hole, Once a Theory, Now Firmly within Observers' Sight
An image based on a supercomputer simulation of the cosmological environment where primordial gas undergoes the direct collapse to a black hole. The gas flows along filaments of dark matter that form a cosmic web connecting structures in the early universe. The first galaxies formed at the intersection of these dark matter filaments.
Aaron Smith/TACC/UT-Austin
