| Abstract from DBPedia | A supermassive black hole (SMBH or sometimes SBH) 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 (M☉). Black holes are a class of astronomical objects that have undergone gravitational collapse, leaving behind spheroidal regions of space from which nothing can escape, not even light. Observational evidence indicates that almost every large galaxy has a supermassive black hole at its center. For example, the Milky Way has a supermassive black hole in its Galactic Center, corresponding to the radio source Sagittarius A*. Accretion of interstellar gas onto supermassive black holes is the process responsible for powering active galactic nuclei (AGNs) and quasars. Two supermassive black holes have been directly imaged by the Event Horizon Telescope: the black hole in the giant elliptical galaxy Messier 87 and the black hole at the Milky Way’s center.超大質量ブラックホール（ちょうだいしつりょうブラックホール、英: supermassive black hole）は、太陽の105倍から1010倍程度の質量を持つブラックホールのことである。全てではないが、銀河系（天の川銀河）を含むほとんどの銀河の中心には、超大質量ブラックホールが存在すると考えられている。 (Source: http://dbpedia.org/resource/Supermassive_black_hole) |
