Face hiding 'monster' black hole

Ultraviolet ray sky surveys have found super-giant black holes that are rapidly increasing in size from the early universe.

There are still many huge black holes yet to be discovered

Scientists at the University of Cambridge (UK) said that the black holes had never been discovered before because they cleverly lurked beneath thick layers of dust. They are now exposed because they are continually releasing huge amounts of radiation through "violent" interactions with host galaxies.

According to the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society report , astronomers said the largest object identified in the new study was the supermassive black hole ULASJ1234 + 0907 .

This black hole is so far away that the light emitted from it takes 11 billion years to reach Earth, which means it has been around since the early days of the universe.

ULASJ1234 + 0907 has more than 10 billion times the mass of the sun and 10,000 times the mass of a black hole is also in the super-giant form at the center of the Milky Way, becoming one of the largest black holes ever observed.

The Cambridge University team uses data collected from the British Infrared Glass Vision to see through space and time and identify the black hole for the first time.