10/11 Black holes can also grow through "cosmic cannibalism" — when galaxies collide, their supermassive black holes merge into single, bigger beasts.
But really huge black holes are so rare that this won't significantly expand the growth boundaries.
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Colliding galaxy clusters stir up hot, ‘sloshing’ gas: Scientists used XRISM to detect hot gas flows in Centaurus Cluster, proving that galaxy collisions cause gas movement and keep clusters hot.
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Hubble Space Telescope image of galaxy cluster MS1054-03, located 8 billion light-years away. The image shows hundreds of galaxies, with insets highlighting examples of colliding galaxies merging to form larger ones. This cluster contains the largest number of colliding galaxies ever found.
Astronomy Picture from 22/07/1999
Cosmic Collisions in a Galaxy Cluster
Source: https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap990722.html
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