Astronomers at the University of Berkeley have purportedly discovered two new super-massive black holes each at the center of galaxies more than 300 million light years away. While at first it just seems cool (these monsters have event horizons that are "200 times the orbit of Earth, or five times the orbit of Pluto" (Sanders) ), they will also help us understand how these celestial bodies could grow so large, and can offer us clues as to how the universe would have looked like long ago.

The article by Robert Sanders can be found at:
newscenter.berkeley.edu