Amphithéâtre Marguerite de Navarre, Site Marcelin Berthelot
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Abstract

Every galaxy has a super-massive black hole at its center, whose mass is proportional to the mass of the central bulge or spheroid of stars. Black holes accumulate mass over time through accretion of gas from their disk, or through mergers between galaxies. But how can we explain the fact that black holes of several billion solar masses already exist very early in the Universe, less than a billion years after the Big-Bang ?