... Behemoth black hole found in an unlikely place . ... APEX takes part in sharpest observation ever . ... They were able to make the sharpest direct observation ever of the center of a distant galaxy, the bright quasar 3C 279, which contains a supermassive black hole with a mass about 1 billion times that of the Sun and is so far from Earth that its light has taken more than 5 billion years to reach us. ... Only registered members of Astronomy.com are allowed to comment on this article. ...