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Old 01-02-2009, 04:52 PM
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If you are talking about the super massive black holes that exist in the cores of galaxies, their formation is thought to be quite different to that of stellar black holes.

When galaxy formation originally occurred the Universe was much smaller than it currently is, primordial matter was considerably denser. I believe that the galactic black holes formed in the early stages of galaxy formation as a consequence of the collapse, due to gravity, of the central densest regions of these proto galaxies.

Clearly these galactic black holes formed before the final structure of their host galaxies evolved to what we would now accept as the norm for the various morphologies that we see.

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Trevor
Precisely, you're quite correct in your assumptions there, Trevor.
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