Astronomers Find Biggest Black Holes Yet

By DENNIS OVERBYE, New York Times
Mon, 12/05/2011 - 9:38am

Cosmologists have measured the biggest black holes ever found, work that could shed light on the formation and evolution of galaxies.

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