<ul><li>Supermassive black holes are growing at rates that defy the limits of current theory.</li><li>A recent discovery revealed a low-mass supermassive black hole that was devouring material at an extreme rate.</li><li>The black hole, known as LID-568, is feeding on matter at a rate 40 times the Eddington limit.</li><li>The discovery provides an opportunity for astronomers to study black holes in the early Universe and challenge the Eddington limit theory.</li></ul>

Early black holes fed 40x faster than should be possible

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