The most recent supermassive black hole we have detected is at the center of the SDSS quasar J103027.09 052455.0.
It has a mass of one billion times the mass of the Sun and so powerful gravity that it traps as many as 6 galaxies that are closest to it.
It should be emphasized that its gravitational tentacles extend over 300 times the diameter of the Milky Way.
Interestingly, this black hole is a very old object that was formed less than a billion years after the Big Bang, a sensational discovery made with the Very Large Telescope (VLT) at the Chilean Paranal Observatory.
Astronomers are surprised that such a young universe already had such powerful objects.
After all, we see a black hole as it looked billions of years ago.
It's hard to imagine what it looks like today, in an animation published by ESO, we can see the flow of gas between the black hole and the galaxies.
The formation looks like a spider's web.
Scientists believe that it was created with a huge contribution from black matter.
It was she who could pull ordinary matter towards it and thus form a gas grid formation in which galaxies were born. Astronomers are not sure, but they speculate that there may be even more galaxies hidden in this formation.
For now, they are not visible to us because the formation is so far away that ground-based telescopes can only detect the brightest galaxies, a key element in studying not only black holes, but also the history of the formation of the universe and their role
in its evolution.
The more discoveries humanity makes, the more and more unanswered questions arise.
The world of astronomy needs to build even more powerful telescopes than the VLT.
Then we can start trying to answer the basic questions.