Newly Discovered Black Hole Is the Farthest Ever Found

A newly discovered supermassive black hole is the farthest ever found.

A team of scientists, led by the Carnegie Observatories’ Eduardo Banados, reported the findings in the journal Nature. The black hole, whose mass is 800 million times greater than that of the Sun, lies in a quasar. Powered by black holes devouring everything around them, quasars are some of the brightest objects in the universe.

Since the black hole is 13 billion light years away, it provides a snapshot of what the earliest universe must've been like, only just hundreds of millions of years after the Big Bang, which is 5 percent of the universe's current age. Banados equates it to seeing a photo of a 50-year-old man when he was 2 1/2 years old.

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