This serendipitous result added a new dimension to our understanding of the system and opened up exciting avenues for investigation," said Suh in a statement.
This black hole is having a feast," said coauthor and International Gemini Observatory astronomer Julia Scharwächter in a statement.
The findings could help explain previous observations of extremely massive black holes, which typically take billions of years to form but date back to the very earliest days of the universe."
This extreme case shows that a fast-feeding mechanism above the Eddington limit is one of the possible explanations for why supermassive black holes grew so rapidly in the early universe.
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