The black hole dates from just 400 million years after the Big Bang, which took place more than 13 billion years ago, and is surprisingly massive - a few million times the mass of our Sun.
But the size of the newly-discovered black hole suggests that they might form in other ways - they might be 'born big' or they can eat matter at a rate that's five times higher than had been thought possible.
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