supermassive
adjective
su·per·mas·sive
ˌsü-pər-ˈma-siv 
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The radiation and jets can change the way gas is distributed throughout galaxies and feed the formation of stars, which is why supermassive black holes are regarded as giant engines at the centers of galaxies.
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Ashley Strickland, CNN, 19 Feb. 2025
Whereas supermassive black holes have masses from millions to billions of times that of the sun, the star-snacking stellar black holes at the heart of microquasars have masses of no more than a few hundred solar masses.
—Robert Lea, Space.com, 19 Feb. 2025
If confirmed, this would make the Large Magellanic Cloud one of the smallest galaxies known to host a supermassive black hole.
—The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 11 Feb. 2025
Radio astronomers have also spied much bigger, cooler supermassive black holes weighing millions or billions of times as much as the Sun in the centers of our galaxy and others.
—Byhannah Richter, science.org, 29 Jan. 2025
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Ashley Strickland, CNN, 19 Feb. 2025
Whereas supermassive black holes have masses from millions to billions of times that of the sun, the star-snacking stellar black holes at the heart of microquasars have masses of no more than a few hundred solar masses.
—Robert Lea, Space.com, 19 Feb. 2025
If confirmed, this would make the Large Magellanic Cloud one of the smallest galaxies known to host a supermassive black hole.
—The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 11 Feb. 2025
Radio astronomers have also spied much bigger, cooler supermassive black holes weighing millions or billions of times as much as the Sun in the centers of our galaxy and others.
—Byhannah Richter, science.org, 29 Jan. 2025
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“Supermassive.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/supermassive. Accessed 6 Mar. 2025.
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