supermassive
adjective
su·per·mas·sive
ˌsü-pər-ˈma-siv 
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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.
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Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 26 Feb. 2026
As such, LoTSS-DR3 could revolutionize our understanding of the massive jets and associated radio emissions that rip out from active supermassive black holes and our knowledge of how these outflows can shape entire surrounding galaxies.
—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
The supermassive black hole’s forces are unfathomably strong, but the influences of the giant galaxy cluster around it can’t be ignored either.
—Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 15 Jan. 2026
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Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 26 Feb. 2026
As such, LoTSS-DR3 could revolutionize our understanding of the massive jets and associated radio emissions that rip out from active supermassive black holes and our knowledge of how these outflows can shape entire surrounding galaxies.
—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
The supermassive black hole’s forces are unfathomably strong, but the influences of the giant galaxy cluster around it can’t be ignored either.
—Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 15 Jan. 2026
See All Example Sentences for supermassive
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“Supermassive.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/supermassive. Accessed 9 Mar. 2026.
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