NASA Update: "Colossal Black Hole Weighing 17 Billion Suns Found in a Cosmic Backwater"

"The newly discovered supersized black hole resides in the center of a massive elliptical galaxy, NGC 1600, located in a cosmic backwater, a small grouping of 20 or so galaxies," said lead discoverer Chung-Pei Ma, a University of California-Berkeley astronomer...