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And according to a new analysis of the X-ray infrared and optical radiation that was just racing out of the black hole, the supermassive monster appears to be growing faster than is theoretically possible. And it's about 2.4 times the Eddington limit. And this is the theoretical limit of how fast black holes can grow. It's based on the relationship between the outward radiation pressure and the gravitational pull. So you've got radiation being pushed out and you've got the gravity pulling it back in. It's kind of the same principle that keeps the Sun in the spherical shape it's in right now. You've got all the radiation, all the radiation pressure coming out of the Sun and its mass is great enough that it creates a gravitational field equal to the radiation pressure which keeps the Sun from expanding to the point where it actually goes into a red giant space, which it will in time, but not right now. So this black hole, which is sort of flossing the wheel, is not the first object discovered in the universe, but it could bring researchers closer to understanding why so many black holes seem to fly the best models or theoretical models of cosmology.