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The 35 pages that link to Supermassive black hole, each with the reason it gives.

• Active galactic nucleusBroader topic: Its gravity anchors the central engine and sets the scale of the accretion flow.

• QuasarBroader topic: Its gravity anchors the compact engine at the center of a quasar.

• GalaxyBroader topic: Its growth and energy output can affect gas in the central galaxy.

• Galactic bulgeRelated: Many bulges surround a central black hole whose growth is linked to galaxy evolution.

• Primordial black holeCompared with: Its known galactic setting and growth history differ from the proposed primordial origin.

• Schwarzschild radiusBroader topic: Its radius scales linearly with mass and can span millions or billions of kilometers.

• BlazarRelated: Its accretion system powers the central engine associated with blazar jets.

• Galactic windRelated: Accretion onto one can supply the energy for an active-nucleus-driven wind.

• Centaurus ABroader topic: A supermassive black hole is thought to power Centaurus A’s active nucleus.

• Antennae GalaxiesRelated: The merging galaxies’ central black holes are expected to become a bound pair and eventually merge.

• Messier 87Broader topic: M87’s central black hole has a mass of about 6.5 billion Suns.

• Nuclear star clusterRelated: It can occupy the same galactic nucleus as a nuclear star cluster.

• Broad-line regionRelated: It powers the central source and dominates gravity close to the region.

• Intermediate-mass black holeCompared with: It occupies the upper range and anchors the question of how intermediate-mass objects grow.

• Sombrero GalaxyBroader topic: The Sombrero Galaxy hosts a massive central black hole, inferred through observations of its nucleus.

• 3C 273Narrower topic: Its central black hole powers the accretion that makes 3C 273 shine.

• Messier 81Broader topic: A supermassive black hole powers activity in M81’s central region.

• Reinhard GenzelBroader topic: The inferred central mass places Sagittarius A* in this class.

• Bondi accretionBroader topic: Bondi estimates are used to assess how these objects might draw gas from their surroundings.

• Messier 77Related: Accretion onto Messier 77’s central black hole powers its nucleus.

• NGC 4151Related: Its central black hole supplies the gravitational engine for the galaxy’s active nucleus.

• Stellar black holeCompared with: Its mass and likely growth history differ sharply from those of a stellar black hole.

• cD galaxyRelated: The black holes in massive central galaxies can power feedback that reshapes the cluster core.

• Low-ionization nuclear emission-line regionRelated: When accretion powers a LINER, the central engine is a supermassive black hole.

• Markarian 421Related: Accretion onto the central black hole powers the active nucleus and its outflow.

• Markarian 501Narrower topic: The galaxy’s central black hole powers the accretion and jet activity behind its emissions.

• MegamaserRelated: Keplerian maser motions can yield a precise mass for the central black hole.

• Messier 49Related: A central black hole is part of the physical system studied in massive elliptical galaxies like Messier 49.

• NGC 5548Related: Accretion onto the central black hole powers NGC 5548’s active nucleus.

• Robert BrownNarrower topic: Later evidence established that Sagittarius A* is powered by one at the Galactic center.

• Andrea M. GhezBroader topic: The Milky Way’s central object belongs to this class, with about four million solar masses.

• Astronomical black holesBroader topic: How such enormous black holes formed and grew so early in cosmic history is unresolved.

• Formation and evolution of stars and galaxiesRelated: How these objects formed early and regulated galaxy growth remains unsettled.

• Messier 106Related: Accretion onto Messier 106’s central black hole powers its active nucleus.

• Viktor AmbartsumianCompared with: Modern accretion models explain active galactic nuclei through black holes, unlike Ambartsumian’s proposed explosive activity in galactic nuclei.