There are black holes that are too big to be born from the death of a star but aren’t quite supermassive either. There’s finally evidence for where those came from.
  • frongt@lemmy.zip
    28·
    3 天前

    Save you a click: black holes formed from mergers with smaller black holes, not formed from star collapse

    • janewaydidnothingwrong@lemmy.world
      5·
      2 天前

      You have to walk a fine line when it comes to science communication and unfortunately this is something you’ll see pretty much every time. Explaining models and theories to the layman is not a bad thing but the more info you have to convey, the more the message gets buried. It’s a tough one.