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An astronomer analyzed ancient supermassive black holes with mathematical models and found they likely grew exponentially after light, intermediate, and heavy seed stars merged.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (1 children)

So when a star collapses or collides with another star and the force is so strong that the only place for the force to go is inward is what creates a black hole. There's theories that the supermassive blackhole in the center of the Milky Way was formed by 2 stars colliding and creating a strong enough implosion to create Sagittarius A*. And there are more reports saying that the black hole became exponentially active about 200 years ago...

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago

This answer doesn't make senese. How could only 2 stars form a supermassive black hole?