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TIL That there is an ultramassive Black Hole named S5 0014+81 that has a radius 1600 times greater than the distance between Earth and the Sun, and contains the mass of 40 Billion Suns! For perspective, that's 1,566,068,977,897,877,185,233,126,961 Toyota Corollas.

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