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 Top: artist's conception of a supermassive black hole tearing apart a star. Bottom: images believed to show a supermassive black hole devouring a star in galaxy RX J1242-11. Left: X-ray image, Right: optical image.Chandra :: Photo Album :: RX J1242-11 :: 18 Feb 04</ref> |
A supermassive black hole is the largest type of black hole in a galaxy, on the order of hundreds of thousands to billions of solar masses. Most--and possibly all--galaxies, including the Milky Way (see Sagittarius A*), are believed to contain supermassive black holes at their centers.
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- Related: Active galactic nucleus, Black hole, Galaxy, Galactic center, Hypercompact stellar system, Neutron star, Quasar, M-sigma relation, Sagittarius A*, Spin-flip
| Black Holes: Gravity's Relentless Pull Black Holes: Gravity's Relentless Pull www.hubblesite.org/go/blackholes - Web |
| Images of supermassive black holes Images of supermassive black holes chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2002/0157/0157_composite.jpg - Web |
| NASA images of supermassive black holes NASA images of supermassive black holes antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0210/mwcentre_eso_big.jpg - Web |
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| The black hole at the heart of the Milky Way The black hole at the heart of the Milky Way www.einstein-online.info/en/spotlights/milkyway_bh/index.html - Web |
| ESO video clip of stars orbiting a galactic black ... ESO video clip of stars orbiting a galactic black hole www.eso.org/public/videos/eso0846a/ - Web |
| Star Orbiting Massive Milky Way Centre Approaches ... Star Orbiting Massive Milky Way Centre Approaches to within 17 Light-Hours www.eso.org/outreach/press-rel/pr-2002/pr-17-02.html - Web |
| Images, Animations, and New Results from the UCLA ... Images, Animations, and New Results from the UCLA Galactic Center Group www.astro.ucla.edu/research/galcenter/ - Web |
| Washington Post article on Supermassive black hole... Washington Post article on Supermassive black holes www.washingtonpost.com/.../AR2007103002073.html?nav=most_emailed - Web |
| A simulation of the stars orbiting the Milky Way's... A simulation of the stars orbiting the Milky Way's central massive black hole www.orbitsimulator.com/gravity/articles/mwblackhole.html - Web |
