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Astronomers know that supermassive black holes at the centres of galaxies existed in the early universe, but how these objects managed to accumulate such heft in a short cosmological timespan is a mystery... An alternative explanation is that a very large amount of gas - roughly 100,000 solar masses - may have collapsed directly into the black hole... 'It's a remarkable achievement to be able to simulate such a huge volume of space to the precision needed to say something about a single black hole,' says Daniel Mortlock [Physics] of ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½.