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Astronomers Spot Early Universe’s Fastest-Feeding Black Hole


Named LID-568, this 7.2-million-solar-mass black hole appears to be feeding on matter at a rate 40 times its Eddington limit and is seen as it existed just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang.

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