Monstrous black hole feeds on nearby matter just 1 billion years after the Big Bang (Photos)

Astronomers have imaged a feeding quasar powered by a black hole at the very edge of the universe, so far away that it was seen as it appeared less than 1 billion years after the Big Bang. The quasar, named SDSS J114816.64+525150.3, is powered by a supermassive black hole of more than 3 billion times … Read more