supermassive
adjective
su·per·mas·sive
ˌsü-pər-ˈma-siv 
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At its very core is Sagittarius A*, a supermassive black hole roughly 4 million times more massive than our sun.
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Asuka Koda, CNN Money, 5 Mar. 2026
On February 24, the first night of public access, the system created and distributed some 800,000 alerts, sending out notifications for swooping asteroids, exploding stars, flaring supermassive black holes and other transient celestial events.
—Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 26 Feb. 2026
These include jets erupting from feeding supermassive black holes, colliding galaxies, and supernova explosions that mark the deaths of massive stars and the births of unimaginably dense neutron stars.
—Robert Lea, Space.com, 25 Feb. 2026
While some astronomers, such as Hudec and Graham, might be looking for a few specific, active, variable supermassive black holes, others such as Jurdana-Šepić study bursting stars.
—Liz Kruesi, Quanta Magazine, 2 Feb. 2026
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Asuka Koda, CNN Money, 5 Mar. 2026
On February 24, the first night of public access, the system created and distributed some 800,000 alerts, sending out notifications for swooping asteroids, exploding stars, flaring supermassive black holes and other transient celestial events.
—Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 26 Feb. 2026
These include jets erupting from feeding supermassive black holes, colliding galaxies, and supernova explosions that mark the deaths of massive stars and the births of unimaginably dense neutron stars.
—Robert Lea, Space.com, 25 Feb. 2026
While some astronomers, such as Hudec and Graham, might be looking for a few specific, active, variable supermassive black holes, others such as Jurdana-Šepić study bursting stars.
—Liz Kruesi, Quanta Magazine, 2 Feb. 2026
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“Supermassive.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/supermassive. Accessed 11 Mar. 2026.
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