Supermassive Diet: Black Holes Bulk-Up On Dark Matter

astroengine writes It has long been assumed that the size of a supermassive black hole in a galaxy's core is intimately related to the number of stars that galaxy contains — but it might not be that simple after all. According to new research, it may in fact be a galaxy's extensive dark matter halo that controls the evolution of the central supermassive black hole and not the total number of stars that galaxy contains. "There seems to be a mysterious link between the amount of dark matter a galaxy holds and the size of its central black hole, even though the two operate on vastly different scales," said lead author Akos Bogdan of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA), Cambridge, Mass.

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So now we're assuming dark matter exists and we know how much of it is in any given galaxy?
And we're correlating it to the "size" (singularity? event horizon? mass?) of a black hole?

I might as well correlate the amount of Leprechauns in my ass to the "price" of Bitcoin.