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Why are some black holes bigger than others? An astronomer explains how these celestial vacuums grow

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Black holes are dense astronomical objects with gravity so strong that nothing, not even light, can escape.

Some scientists think supermassive black holes might form by many stars colliding and collapsing at once, while others think they might have started growing several billion years ago .

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