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During a star's death, an enormous amount of solar material collapses onto itself, packing tightly into a small space, forming a black hole. How much material? Sometimes millions to billions of times the mass of the sun compressed into an area only measuring a few miles across.
Astronomers have found evidence of a "rapidly growing black hole" in the early universe, according to NASA. This discovery has been labeled a "crucial missing link" as it could help us to understand the connection between the first supermassive.