Hai-Bo Yu is an associate professor of physics and astronomy at the University of California, Riverside. His main research fields are: theoretical particle physics and astrophysics. Supermassive black holes, or SMBHs, are black holes with masses that are several million to billion times the mass of our sun. Hai-Bo Yu from the ‪University of California‬, Riverside, sheds more light on the origin of these massive and mysterious objects.