How to Use supermassive in a Sentence

supermassive

adjective
  • Future research may shed light on how these supermassive black holes were born.
    Charles Q. Choi, Space.com, 14 Jan. 2026
  • One is the presence of supermassive black holes at their centers.
    Shreejaya Karantha, Space.com, 11 Aug. 2025
  • What are supermassive black holes?
    Mary Ogborn, The Conversation, 25 June 2026
  • Not all the matter in the accretion disk is fed to the supermassive black hole, though.
    Robert Lea, Space.com, 17 Mar. 2026
  • There is one supermassive black hole at the heart of every massive galaxy.
    David Garofalo, The Conversation, 31 Mar. 2025
  • So, with all this in mind, how did supermassive black holes grow so rapidly in the early universe?
    Robert Lea, Space.com, 19 July 2026
  • However, the stars that form these stellar mass black holes are not large enough to form supermassive black holes.
    Mary Ogborn, The Conversation, 25 June 2026
  • Usually, supermassive black holes form over the course of billions of years.
    Jackie Appel, Popular Mechanics, 21 Aug. 2023
  • Most big galaxies have a central supermassive black hole — up to billions of times the mass of our sun.
    Jacopo Prisco, CNN Money, 16 June 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
  • These jets can stretch out far beyond the limits of the galaxy that hosts the active supermassive black hole.
    Robert Lea, Space.com, 20 Feb. 2026
  • 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
  • The breakthrough points to a supermassive black hole lurking at the center of our galaxy.
    Alexandra Banner, CNN Money, 17 June 2026
  • The center of each galaxy features clusters of old stars or supermassive black holes.
    Ashley Strickland, CNN, 1 Feb. 2024
  • Unlike supermassive black holes, stellar mass black holes change on human timescales of hours and even minutes.
    Chris Young, Interesting Engineering, 4 Dec. 2025
  • Quasars are large emissions of energy from a supermassive black hole at the center of a galaxy.
    Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 May 2023
  • These particles could drag on the supermassive black holes enough to drop them within a parsec of each other.
    Jonathan O’Callaghan, WIRED, 1 Dec. 2024
  • That makes this black hole the most distant supermassive black hole scientists have ever measured the mass of.
    Robert Lea, Space.com, 8 June 2026
  • For galaxies with an active supermassive black hole, astronomers look at the light the gas around the event horizon emits.
    Mary Ogborn, The Conversation, 25 June 2026
  • Astronomers have spotted the largest and most distant flare ever observed from a supermassive black hole.
    Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 7 Nov. 2025
  • Another major question that has not been answered is when these supermassive black holes form.
    Mary Ogborn, The Conversation, 25 June 2026
  • 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
  • Now, a new study finds the strange features of little red dots might be explained by supermassive black holes in disguise during their youth.
    Charles Q. Choi, Space.com, 14 Jan. 2026
  • Most TDEs take place in the center of a galaxy, where a supermassive black hole lurks.
    Keith Cooper, Space.com, 16 Oct. 2025
  • However, not all supermassive black holes accrete vast amounts of matter.
    Robert Lea, Space.com, 10 July 2026
  • 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
  • Or did a galaxy start to coalesce first, and stars and gas clouds inside it collapsed into the supermassive black hole seeds?
    Mary Ogborn, The Conversation, 25 June 2026
  • One is active supermassive black holes and the other is the first generations of hot, massive stars.
    Keith Cooper, Space.com, 24 June 2026
  • Smaller black holes are the remnants of large dead stars, but the origin of the supermassive ones is poorly understood.
    Jacopo Prisco, CNN Money, 16 June 2026

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