1 00:00:07,860 --> 00:00:11,120 A Black Holes’ Breakfast at the Cosmic Dawn 2 00:00:12,780 --> 00:00:19,860 ESO’s Very Large Telescope has observed reservoirs of cool gas around some of the earliest galaxies in the Universe. 3 00:00:23,620 --> 00:00:30,080 These gas halos are the perfect food for supermassive black holes at the centre of these galaxies. 4 00:00:34,540 --> 00:00:40,860 Astronomers see these galaxies as they were more than 12.5 billion years ago when the Universe was still an infant. 5 00:00:44,340 --> 00:00:48,860 The gas halos might explain how supermassive black holes grew so quickly during the Cosmic Dawn. 6 00:00:53,380 --> 00:00:59,920 This places a key piece in the puzzle of how cosmic structures formed more than 12 billion years ago. 7 00:01:10,340 --> 00:01:14,720 Transcription by ESO; translation by —