Supermassive black holes
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Objects with masses of millions to billions of solar masses that reside at the centres of most large galaxies, including the Milky Way.
Bodies whose accretion powers the huge energy output of active galactic nuclei such as quasars.
Topics that use Supermassive black holes
- Quasars (A-level only) (AQA A-Level)
- Supernovae, neutron stars and black holes (A-level only) (AQA A-Level)
Related terms
- Active galactic nuclei
- Accretion
- Accretion discs and black hole mass
- Black hole
- Chandrasekhar limit
- Cosmological redshift
- dark energy
- estimation
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