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It is the first black hole ever observed using a phenomenon called gravitational lensing, a new technique that could spot thousands more of the insatiable celestial monsters in the coming years
Observations of previous black holes of this size have been made by measuring the orbits of stars passing nearby or measuring how much light is emitted by their voracious devouring.
An ultramassive black hole 30 billion times the mass of our Sun one of the biggest ever found was discovered due to a phenomenon known as gravitational lensing.