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The oldest, largest body of water in existence

Researchers found a lake of water so large that it could provide each person on Earth an entire planet’s worth of water - 20,000 times over... The water is in a cloud around a huge black hole that is in the process of sucking in matter and spraying out energy (such an active black hole is called a quasar), and the waves of energy the black hole releases make water by literally knocking hydrogen and oxygen atoms together.

This is absolutely amazing! Visit Fast Company for the full story.