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Supermassive black hole spotted 12.9 billion light-years from Earth — and it's shooting a beam of energy right at us

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Supermassive black hole is about as massive as 700 million suns shooting a giant energy beam directly at Earth .

The cosmic juggernaut is taking aim at us from a galaxy in the early universe, 800 million years after the Big Bang .

Radio waves from this blazar traveled more than 12.9 billion light-years to reach us, which is a new record for this type of cosmic object.