| ] this is the bright new picture of black holes and their] role in the evolution of the universe. Interviews with
 ] more than a half dozen experts presently involved in
 ] rewriting the slippery history of these elusive objects
 ] reveals black holes as galactic sculptors.
 ]
 ] In this revised view, which still contains some highly
 ] debated facts, fuzzy paragraphs and sketchy initial
 ] chapters, black holes are shown to be fundamental forces
 ] in the development and ultimate shapes of galaxies and
 ] the distribution of stars in them. The new history also
 ] shows that a black hole is almost surely a product of the
 ] galaxy in which it resides. Neither, it seems, does much
 ] without the other.
 ]
 ] The emerging theory has a nifty, Darwinist buzzword:
 ] co-evolution.
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