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Supermassive black holes with millions to billions of solar masses already existed surprisingly early in cosmic history, creating a growth-timescale problem.
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Growth rate is limited by how efficiently gas reaches the black hole and by radiation feedback, although short super-Eddington episodes may occur.
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