How to Use supermassive in a Sentence

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• Wouldn’t a supermassive black hole have a stronger one?
  — Mark Zastrow, Discover Magazine, 29 Dec. 2022
• At the garden’s heart sits a fountain of black volcanic rock: a stand-in for Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the center of the galaxy.
  — Corinne Purtill, Los Angeles Times, 26 July 2023
• The first is that ORCs are the result of a shockwave from the center of a galaxy, perhaps arising from the merging of two supermassive black holes.
  — Jon Brodkin, Ars Technica, 10 Jan. 2024
• The Milky Way’s supermassive black hole is named Sagittarius A*.
  — Isaac Schultz / Gizmodo, Quartz, 27 Mar. 2024
• Usually, supermassive black holes form over the course of billions of years.
  — Jackie Appel, Popular Mechanics, 21 Aug. 2023
• Porphyrion’s twin jets came from a supermassive black hole at the heart of a galaxy that’s a dizzying 7.5 billion light-years away from Earth.
  — Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Sep. 2024
• Bars also aid in the formation of supermassive black holes in the centers of galaxies, channeling the gas part of the way.
  — Julia Musto, Fox News, 7 Jan. 2023
• Quasars are large emissions of energy from a supermassive black hole at the center of a galaxy.
  — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 May 2023
• The supermassive black hole pictured, called Sagittarius A*, is at the center of our galaxy.
  — Robert Lea, Popular Mechanics, 7 Mar. 2023
• And the black holes left over from their deaths kept merging and growing somehow, into the supermassive black holes at the centers of galaxies.
  — Dennis Overbye, New York Times, 24 Dec. 2023
• The first image of the supermassive black hole was released two years ago, showing glowing gas around a dark center — and lacking the detail of the new image.
  — Bill Chappell, NPR, 28 Mar. 2024
• The center of each galaxy features clusters of old stars or supermassive black holes.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 1 Feb. 2024
• Astronomers have noticed a few glowing supermassive black holes at a redshift of 6 or 7, about a billion years after the Big Bang.
  — Quanta Magazine, 20 Jan. 2023
• Across the universe Astronomers are watching a supermassive black hole awakening in the middle of a distant galaxy for the first time.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 22 June 2024
• Astronomers have discovered a black hole with a mass about 33 times greater than that of our sun, the biggest one known in the Milky Way aside from the supermassive black hole lurking at the center of our galaxy.
  — Will Dunham, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 Apr. 2024
• The iconic first-ever view of a supermassive black hole sports a dramatic new look, thanks to machine learning.
  — Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 13 Apr. 2023
• This telescope will map stars and supermassive black holes among other projects with a resolution about the same as the Hubble Space Telescope but with a wider view.
  — Scott Shackelford, Fortune, 9 Dec. 2022
• Nor cannot it be explained by the merger of supermassive black holes as galaxies collide, since this would not change the mass ratio of nearby stars.
  — Discover Magazine, 21 Feb. 2023
• By contrast, supermassive black hole Sagittarius A*, parked at the galactic core, is vastly larger, with about 4 million times the mass of the Sun.
  — George Dvorsky / Gizmodo, Quartz, 16 Apr. 2024
• The galactic center is a very rich environment because there is already a supermassive black hole there, and it’s got about four million times the mass of the sun.
  — Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 22 June 2023
• An enormous amount of heat is produced as stars are dismembered by supermassive black holes.
  — Elizabeth Rayne, Ars Technica, 6 Feb. 2024
• Most galaxies are home to supermassive black holes in or near their central region.
  — Joel Achenbach and Victoria Jaggard, Anchorage Daily News, 29 June 2023
• These slow ripples can take years or even decades to cycle up and down, and probably come from some of the biggest objects in our universe: supermassive black holes billions of times the mass of our sun.
  — Maddie Burakoff, ajc, 29 June 2023
• Researchers think a supermassive black hole is either engorging a giant mass of gas or ripping apart a star.
  — Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 12 May 2023
• The galaxy is estimated to be more than 1,600 light years across, and the light is suspected to be coming from young stars and not emission from a growing supermassive black hole.
  — Greg Wehner, Fox News, 31 May 2024
• Within the past year, hundreds of them — bigger and brighter than expected, packed with forming stars swirling around supermassive black holes — have been confirmed.
  — Katrina Miller, New York Times, 12 July 2023
• Stellar black holes are dwarfed in size by the supermassive black holes inhabiting the center of most galaxies.
  — Will Dunham, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 Apr. 2024
• Within the constellation Leo, the galaxy hosts a supermassive black hole in its center.
  — Discover Magazine, 6 Feb. 2024
• Researchers have used the James Webb Space Telescope to discover the most distant active supermassive black hole ever seen.
  — Julia Musto, Fox News, 8 July 2023
• Figuring this out could potentially tell us more about how black holes grow to supermassive scales.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 10 July 2024

Last Updated: 13 Nov 2024