Pakistan, Aug. 8 -- Scientists have announced the discovery of the largest black hole ever detected in the universe. This supermassive black hole is located about 5 billion light-years from Earth. It weighs an astonishing 36 billion times more than our Sun, making it one of the heaviest objects ever observed.

The black hole is also 10,000 times more massive than the one at the center of our own Milky Way galaxy. The findings were published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. This black hole resides in a distant galaxy called the "Cosmic Horseshoe," named after its unique shape caused by gravitational effects.

Its enormous gravity is so strong that it bends the fabric of space and time around it, affecting the paths...