Do black holes have the answer to the accelerated expansion of the Universe?

Terão os buracos negros a resposta para a expansão acelerada do Universo?

An international team, with the participation of the Institute of Astrophysics and Space Sciences (IA), suggests that the mass of black holes increases with the scale of the Universe, and might be concentrations of dark energy.

In this video (in Portuguese), José Afonso, of IA and Ciências ULisboa, who made a contribution to this research, comments its relevance and implications. Learn all the details also in our news release (in English).