In 2017, astronomers reported the finding of a "supermassive" black hole 13 billion light-years away, 800 times larger than the Sun, in the journal "Nature."
A team of astronomers led by Carnegie's Eduardo Baados discovered the farthest distant supermassive black hole yet detected using Carnegie's Magellan telescopes. It is housed in a brilliant quasar, and its light reaches us from a time when the universe was just 5% of its present age – just 690 million years after the Big Bang. The scientists saw the supermassive black hole using two Magellan telescope instruments: FIRE, which made the discovery, and Fourstar, which was utilised for supplementary photos.
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