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It's 17 billion times the size of our sun and was found in a 'cosmic backwater'. Professor Chung-Pei Ma of the University of California, Berkeley discovered the latest supermassive black hole. She talks about how her team found it and provides a handy safety guide should you ever fall in. PICTURE: This computer-simulated image shows a supermassive black hole at the core of a galaxy. The black region in the center represents the black hole's event horizon, where no light can escape the massive object's gravitational grip. The black hole's powerful gravity distorts space around it like a funhouse mirror. Light from background stars is stretched and smeared as the stars skim by the black hole. CREDIT: NASA, ESA, and D. Coe, J. Anderson, and R. van der Marel (Space Telescope Science Institute)