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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


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The observable Universe contains around 100 billion large galaxies and a comparable number of supermassive black holes.

Would Endurance even be able to fly that close to a supermassive black hole without being disintegrated by the force of it?

Like Cookie Monster, many supermassive black holes are messy eaters.

The same principle appears to hold for supermassive black holes too.

Unlike a forest sustaining a small population of predators, most galaxies have only one supermassive black hole.

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