Definitions for supermassive
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1. supermassiveadjective

   Very or extremely massive.

2. supermassiveadjective

   Much larger than usual.

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1. supermassive

   A supermassive black hole (SMBH or sometimes SBH) is the largest type of black hole, with its mass being on the order of hundreds of thousands, or millions to billions of times the mass of the Sun (M☉). Black holes are a class of astronomical objects that have undergone gravitational collapse, leaving behind spheroidal regions of space from which nothing can escape, not even light. Observational evidence indicates that almost every large galaxy has a supermassive black hole at its center. For example, the Milky Way has a supermassive black hole in its Galactic Center, corresponding to the radio source Sagittarius A*. Accretion of interstellar gas onto supermassive black holes is the process responsible for powering active galactic nuclei (AGNs) and quasars.Two supermassive black holes have been directly imaged by the Event Horizon Telescope: the black hole in the giant elliptical galaxy Messier 87 and the black hole at the Milky Way’s center.

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   The numerical value of supermassive in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

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   The numerical value of supermassive in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of supermassive in a Sentence

1. Erin Kara:

   Tidal disruption events offer us this rare view at the most common kind of supermassive black hole in the universe— these so-called dormant supermassive black holes, tidal disruption events, where the stellar debris causes the formation of a temporary accretion disk, offers us a way to probe this population of supermassive black holes.

2. Todd Thompson:

   Were showing this hint that there is another population out there that we have yet to really probe in the search for black holes, people are trying to understand supernova explosions, how supermassive black stars explode, how the elements were formed in supermassive stars. So if we could reveal a new population of black holes, it would tell us more about which stars explode, which dont, which form black holes, which form neutron stars. It opens up a new area of study.

3. Ryan Pfeifle:

   Through the use of these major observatories, we have identified a new way of identifying triple supermassive black holes. Each telescope gives us a different clue about what's going on in these systems, we hope to extend our work to find more triples using the same technique.

4. Todd Thompson:

   People are trying to understand supernova explosions, how supermassive black stars explode, how the elements were formed in supermassive stars, so if we could reveal a new population of black holes, it would tell us more about which stars explode, which don't, which form black holes, which form neutron stars. It opens up a new area of study.

5. Erin Kara:

   Previously, astronomers had thought that the x-ray emission is coming from far out in a jet, but what we’re finding with these observations, is that the x-ray emission is coming from flares very close to the supermassive black hole. And we can use these observations to probe properties of the black hole itself.

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References

1. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Supermassive
2. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supermassive