<ul><li>Astronomers have used the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) to discover 2,500 candidate dwarf galaxies with feeding black holes, and 300 intermediate-mass 'missing link' black hole candidates.</li><li>This is the largest haul of either black hole type ever made and will help astronomers understand how black holes grow and shape the galaxies around them.</li><li>The black holes found inside dwarf galaxies are expected to fall within the intermediate-mass range, but only 70 of the newly-discovered intermediate-mass black hole candidates overlap with dwarf AGN candidates.</li><li>Further exploration is needed to understand the relationship between black hole formation mechanisms and the types of galaxies they inhabit.</li></ul>

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