That may be thanks to a thick cloud of gas surrounding the black hole, skewing its light into redder wavelengths as it passes through. “When we compared this object to those other sources, it was a dead ringer.”CAPERS-LRD-z9 is also notable for how colossal its black hole is. Even among supermassive black holes, this is particularly big. Finding such a massive black hole so early on provides astronomers a valuable opportunity to study how these objects developed. A black hole present in the later Universe will have had diverse opportunities to bulk up during its lifetime.