Suppermassive black hole (called ULASJ1234+0907) has been found:
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In the new study, the team from Cambridge used infrared surveys being carried out on the UK Infrared Telescope (UKIRT) to peer through the dust and locate the giant black hole.
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It's amazing what infrared can do, it simply peers through the dust so we're able to "see" what's been unseen.
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ULASJ1234+0907, located in the direction of the constellation of Virgo, is so far away that the light from it has taken 11 billion years to reach us, so we see it as it appeared in the early universe. The monster black hole has > 10 billion times the mass of the Sun and 10,000 times the mass of the supermassive black hole in our own Milky Way, making it one of the most massive black holes ever seen.
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That thing is really massive and so far away! Yet they were able to detect it.
http://phys.org/news/2012-10-giant-b...ng-survey.html
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...the young Universe was filled with a hot dense soup of interacting protons, electrons and photons at about 2700ºC. When the protons and electrons joined to form hydrogen atoms, the light was set free
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