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Old 09-November-2004, 07:41 PM
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Originally posted by StarLab@Nov 9 2004, 06:58 PM
But, this brings up a new question: how did so many mini-holes produce SMBH's?
I think that the SMBH's started big, and mostly only grew by capturing material that tried to fall into it once or twice before, but was blown out again. Orbital dynamics make other kinds of capture a rare event.
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