Bent Light in Deep Space Reveals One of the Biggest Black Holes Ever Detected

Holy smokes. A group of astronomers have found a black hole containing (checks notes) 30 billion times the mass of our Sun. That’s more than seven thousand times the size of the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way.

First Full-Color Images From Webb Space Telescope

The team used gravitational lensing to see the black hole. In this natural phenomenon, massive objects’ gravitational fields bend photons of light magnifying and warping them—making it possible to see object that would . . .