supermassive
adjective
physicsspecialized(alsosuper-massive)uk/ˌsuː.pəˈmæs.ɪv/us/ˌsuː.pɚˈmæs.ɪv/A supermassivestarorblackhole(= aregioninspacewheregravityis sostrongthat notevenlightcanescape)that has anextremelylargemass(=containsa verylargeamountofmatter):
Supermassiveblackholescan be asbigasourentiresolarsystem.
It is veryunusualto beabletoseethedeathof super-massivestars.
- A supermassiveblackholecan have amassmillions oftimesgreaterthan that of thesun.
- Supermassivestarslike this areextremelyrarein theuniverse.
- There may be a supermassiveblackholeat thecentreof thegalaxy.
- Quasars arebelievedto bepoweredbygasfallinginto supermassiveblackholes.
Astronomy
- albedo
- Andromeda
- Aquarius
- Aries
- asteroid
- full moon
- galactic
- galaxy
- Gemini
- geostationary orbit
- observatory
- orbit
- orbital
- penumbra
- phase
- stellar
- substellar
- sunspot
- supergiant
- supermoon