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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The breakthrough points to a supermassive black hole lurking at the center of our galaxy.
    — Alexandra Banner, CNN Money, 17 June 2026
  • Unlike supermassive black holes, stellar mass black holes change on human timescales of hours and even minutes.
    — Chris Young, Interesting Engineering, 4 Dec. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Quasars occur when these central supermassive black holes are surrounded by vast amounts of gas and dust called accretion disks.
    — Robert Lea, Space.com, 9 June 2026
  • That is a ratio that is thousands of times greater than the ratio of supermassive black hole mass to galaxy mass found in the local universe.
    — Robert Lea, Space.com, 28 May 2026
  • That was the first hint this was the work not of a central supermassive black hole, but of a non-central intermediate mass black hole.
    — Robert Lea, Space.com, 18 Feb. 2026
  • That is because these winds are how supermassive black holes exchange energy with their galactic homes.
    — Robert Lea, Space.com, 9 June 2026
  • Jets and winds from black holes are textbook physics, and scientists have observed many supermassive black holes hurling them into space.
    — Jacopo Prisco, CNN Money, 16 June 2026
  • The supermassive black hole sitting at the heart of our galaxy is considered to be a slumbering giant.
    — Robert Lea, Space.com, 8 Jan. 2026
  • The discovery could further shine light on the mystery of how supermassive black holes grow to sizes of millions and even billions of times that of the sun.
    — Robert Lea, Space.com, 4 Nov. 2025
  • As the supermassive black hole grows, astronomers see an increase in the speed of the stars located in the central cluster of the galaxy.
    — Mary Ogborn, The Conversation, 25 June 2026
  • This pattern suggests a link between the supermassive black hole and the other components of the galaxy, such as stars, gas and dust.
    — Mary Ogborn, The Conversation, 25 June 2026
  • Some matter is channeled to the poles of the supermassive black hole from where it is blasted out as parallel twin jets travelling at near light-speeds.
    — Robert Lea, Space.com, 20 Feb. 2026
  • One of the prevailing theories posits that little red dots are feeding and growing supermassive black holes.
    — Robert Lea, Space.com, 4 Nov. 2025

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