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And this is referred to as the Eddington limit. And amateur astronomers, rather, have spotted a black hole, a huge one, a monster black hole that occurred early in the universe. And it's feeding on matter more than twice the theoretical limit. And the discovery increases the mystery of how some of these black holes were created shortly after the Big Bang managed to grow so big and so fast. So using the NASA Chandra X-ray Observatory, this is a power for X-ray telescope. And actually, I'll just mention here, too, it's at risk of being ended by the Trump administration's proposal in 2026 for the NASA budget. But astronomers used it to focus on an ancient black hole called RACSJ0320-35, which was born about 922 million years just after the Big Bang. So not a long period of time after the Big Bang.
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