Monstrous black hole 36 billion times heavier than Sun twists light in deep space
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Astronomers discovered a dormant ultramassive black hole 5 billion light-years away that's 36 billion times heavier than our Sun. This cosmic giant, found in the Cosmic Horseshoe galaxy, warps spacetime so intensely it creates an Einstein ring and forces nearby stars to move at nearly 400 kilometers per second. The discovery reveals how galaxy evolution may lead to increasingly massive black holes through galactic mergers.
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