Bad weather foiled the launch attempt of Orbital ATK's Cygnus spacecraft Friday (Dec. 4), delaying the cargo ship's return-to-flight mission for the second day in a row.
The supermassive black hole is 40 million times as massive as the sun and powers a quasar that existed 700 million years after the Big Bang.
The asteroid zoomed by Earth at a perfectly safe distance of around 1.8 million miles (2.9 kilometers).
Images show surprise changes to the spacecraft as it interacted with the atmosphere.