The First Stars May Have Borne Supermassive Black Holes | IE – Interesting Engineering

At the center of many galaxies, there exists a supermassive black hole, but scientists still aren’t sure how they’re formed.
However, we may soon witness how they formed in the very early universe, thanks to a team of international scientists who just predicted that distant supermassive stars explode into extreme supernovae — the possible progenitors of supermassive black holes, according to a recent study published in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.
Whether the supernovae spawn…

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