supermassive
adjective
su·per·mas·sive
ˌsü-pər-ˈma-siv 
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This is an issue because the merger and feeding process that allows supermassive black holes to grow to masses of millions, or even billions, of times that of the sun were previously thought to take at least 1 billion years to reach fruition.
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Robert Lea, Space.com, 23 Mar. 2026
The clouds of gas and dust surround the supermassive black hole at the galactic dead center.
—Marcia Dunn, Los Angeles Times, 16 Mar. 2026
In the centers of active galaxies, huge amounts of matter swirl around a central supermassive black hole, forming a dense rotating disk.
—Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 14 Mar. 2026
That team pointed out that a supermassive black hole ramming through space would have a difficult time raising a sufficiently strong wake to collapse gas into stars.
—Phil Plait, Scientific American, 13 Mar. 2026
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Robert Lea, Space.com, 23 Mar. 2026
The clouds of gas and dust surround the supermassive black hole at the galactic dead center.
—Marcia Dunn, Los Angeles Times, 16 Mar. 2026
In the centers of active galaxies, huge amounts of matter swirl around a central supermassive black hole, forming a dense rotating disk.
—Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 14 Mar. 2026
That team pointed out that a supermassive black hole ramming through space would have a difficult time raising a sufficiently strong wake to collapse gas into stars.
—Phil Plait, Scientific American, 13 Mar. 2026
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“Supermassive.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/supermassive. Accessed 30 Mar. 2026.
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