supermassive
adjective
su·per·mas·sive
ˌsü-pər-ˈma-siv 
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The trajectories of these stars effectively point back to their origin, and based on our current knowledge, that origin must be a supermassive black hole.
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Phil Plait, Scientific American, 22 May 2025
Quasars are the cores of some distant galaxies powered by supermassive black holes that emit huge amounts of radiation.
—Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 21 May 2025
Astrophysicists suspect that every galaxy may sport a supermassive black hole at its heart, these objects evolving along with their host galaxy.
—Ian Randall, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 May 2025
However, while there are numerous active galaxies with supermassive black holes in that region, none of them was displaying activity at the time that could explain the neutrino, nor was a gamma-ray burst detected from that direction at that time.
—Keith Cooper, Space.com, 16 May 2025
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Phil Plait, Scientific American, 22 May 2025
Quasars are the cores of some distant galaxies powered by supermassive black holes that emit huge amounts of radiation.
—Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 21 May 2025
Astrophysicists suspect that every galaxy may sport a supermassive black hole at its heart, these objects evolving along with their host galaxy.
—Ian Randall, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 May 2025
However, while there are numerous active galaxies with supermassive black holes in that region, none of them was displaying activity at the time that could explain the neutrino, nor was a gamma-ray burst detected from that direction at that time.
—Keith Cooper, Space.com, 16 May 2025
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“Supermassive.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/supermassive. Accessed 4 Jun. 2025.
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