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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
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Mark Waghorn & Ryan Merrifield

Supermassive black hole lurking at edge of universe one of biggest ever detected

A supermassive black hole lurking at the edge of the universe is one of the biggest ever detected.

It contains over a billion solar masses worth of interstellar dust - forming stars 1,000 times faster than our own Milky Way.

The cosmic colossus lies at the centre of an extreme galaxy and dates back more than 13 billion years - to only 750 million years after the Big Bang.

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