Jekyll and Hyde and the Wolfman better watch out. They have stiff new competition for the most fearsome and beastly transformation from mild-mannered to raging beast from the galaxy known, rather unintimidatingly, as "Virgil."
Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers watched as the Virgil transformed before their eyes, revealing its monstrous nature and a supermassive black hole at its heart that is feeding on matter at an incredible rate. The black hole now appears far too massive for its host galaxy to support, placing it in a rare category of "overmassive" black holes that challenge leading models of how galaxies first formed and of how they nurture supermassive black holes at their cores, growing in lock step.
