Giant Black Holes

Supermassive Black Holes

At the centre of almost every large galaxy lurks a supermassive black hole (SMBH) with masses ranging from millions to tens of billions of solar masses. The Milky Way's central black hole, Sagittarius A*, has a mass of ~4 million solar mass

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