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"We defined ultramassive black holes as black holes with masses in excess of 10 billion times the mass of the sun," Natarajan told Space.com ... where these cosmic big games roam.
Its huge size meant that it could be spotted so far in the universe that it came from the early time of the cosmos. The black hole was spotted when the universe was only 800 million years old.