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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.

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

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

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

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

• 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.

• 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.