Advertisement

Advertisement

supermassive

/ ˌsuːpəˈmæsɪv /

adjective

  1. (of a black hole or star) having a mass in the range of millions or billions of times that of the sun

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


Discover More

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

Guildford-based Supermassive Games, which specialises in "interactive horror movies", made couch co-op a standard mode in its titles after publishing its breakout hit Until Dawn.

Read more on BBC

They are just growing supermassive black holes, he said at a lecture at the 245th annual meeting of the American Astronomical Society, accompanied by a paper due to be published in The Astrophysical Journal.

Read more on Salon

Collaborations such as the NANOGrav Physics Frontiers Center use pulsars to study the gravitational wave background, which can help researchers understand the early Universe and the prevalence of gravitational-wave sources such as supermassive black-hole binaries.

Read more on Science Daily

"We now see that the culprit is the central supermassive black hole."

Read more on Salon

The culprit is the central supermassive black hole, not unlike the one at the center of most galaxies, including our own.

Read more on Salon

Advertisement

Advertisement

Advertisement

Advertisement


supermarketersupermassive star