They are by far the most terrifying objects in space! The discovery of an ultra-massive black hole sends a shiver down the spine of more than just scientists. A gigantic cosmic devourer, combining more than 1 billion solar masses, already existed so early in our universe that researchers are slowly realizing that these giants play a far more important role in the universe than previously assumed. What changes now when we know that black holes existed even before the first galaxies - and that these black holes were by no means as small as an atom, but contained several billion solar masses?

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