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Thursday, June 30, 2011
'Monster' driving cosmic beacon
June 30, 2011 - BBC News
Astronomers have spied a monster black hole - the brightest object yet seen in the early Universe.
Detected by a UK telescope in Hawaii, the hole is seen as it was a mere 770 million years after the Big Bang.
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