supermassive
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7.1
- adjective
- /ˌsuːpərˈmæsɪv/
- Specialized
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supermasivo
- New observations of the core of the giant elliptical galaxy M87 imply that a supermassive black hole lives there.
- supermassive black hole
- supermassive star
How do supermassive black holes grow so big so quickly?
- How do supermassive black holes grow so big so quickly?
- But for Angiogasm Genzel, when they're talking about the supermassive black hole, they don't name it.
- The problem is, we observe very few galaxies with such binary supermassive black holes.
- There's no like, so there are like supermassive egos, but you're all on the same plane, right?
- And I'm, I'm not actually sure that it's clear right now kind of what was there first, the supermassive black hole or the Galaxy.
- But we think that I would say all galaxies, maybe the, there's an exception or so, but pretty much all galaxies have supermassive black holes at their centres.
- So some very supermassive black holes, you could still cross the horizon without being torn apart by tidal forces.
Examples
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In some galaxies, the plunging clouds may be the food supply for a hungry, supermassive black hole.
Academic text (1995) -
The supermassive black hole at the galaxy's center lies within the bright patch at the image's center.
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It's called supermassive black hole seed theory.
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But it turns out that as far as supermassive black holes are concerned, size does not matter.
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Unfortunately, there is no direct evidence so far for the presence of such supermassive black holes.
Academic text (1992) -
There must be something else there that cannot be seen; astronomers think it is a supermassive black hole.
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Astronomers discovered a ring of gas orbiting the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy.
Academic text (2002) -
Superluminal motion in M87's jet is further evidence for the existence of a supermassive black hole at the galaxy's core.
Academic text (1994) -
But we think that I would say all galaxies, maybe the, there's an exception or so, but pretty much all galaxies have supermassive black holes at their centres.
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At the center of our Milky Way galaxy, astronomers have found a supermassive black hole called Sagittarius A*.
Synonyms
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3.1
Very large and heavy
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5.6
Very large in amount or size
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6.9
Very large and powerful
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6.6
Much larger than normal or expected
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7.1
Very large in number, cost, or size
How Massive
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Supermassive comes from the prefix super- meaning 'above' and from massive, which comes from mass meaning 'a large amount or weight'. So a supermassive object is 'above' very large in mass — in other words it has an extremely large mass, which is why we use it for giant black holes and stars.