They are by far the most terrifying objects in space! The discovery of an ultramassive black hole sends a shiver down the spine of more than just scientists. A gigantic cosmic devourer, combining more than 1 billion solar masses, already existed so early in our universe that researchers are slowly realizing that these giants play a far more important role in the universe than previously assumed. What changes now when we know that black holes existed even before the first galaxies and that these black holes were by no means as small as an atom, but contained several billion solar masses?