Supermassive black hole
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A supermassive black hole is the largest type of black hole, with its mass being on the order of hundreds of thousands, or millions to billions, of times the mass of the Sun. Black holes are a class o
The first direct image of a supermassive black hole, found in the galactic core of Messier 87.
An artist's conception of a supermassive black hole surrounded by an accretion disk and emitting a relativistic jet.
Artist's impression of the huge outflow ejected from the quasar SDSS J1106+1939
Artist's illustration of galaxy with jets from a supermassive black hole
Primordial black hole
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In cosmology, primordial black holes are hypothetical black holes that formed soon after the Big Bang. In the inflationary era and early radiation-dominated universe, extremely dense pockets of subato
Researchers using the James Webb Space Telescope in November 2025 confirmed an actively growing supermassive black hole within a "little red dot" galaxy named CANUCS-LRD-z8.6, just 570 million years after the Big Bang.
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