About 5 billion light-years away from where you're sitting, in one of the most massive galaxies on record, there exists an astonishing black hole. It was only just measured by scientists who managed to peer through the fabric of warped space-time — and it appears to hold a mass equivalent to that of 36 billion suns.

Yes, billion.

"This is amongst the top 10 most massive black holes ever discovered, and quite possibly the most massive," Thomas Collett, study author and a professor at the University of Portsmouth in England, said in a statement.

More specifically, the black hole is found in one of two galaxies that make up the Cosmic Horseshoe system and is what's known as a "dormant" black hole. This means it's a relatively quiet black hole; it isn't actively chomping on matter in its su

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