SUPERMASSIVE BLACK HOLES
When black holes were first theorised, many scientists thought their existence was a physical impossibility. How could an object exist from which nothing, not even light, could escape? And how could this phenomenon be large enough to power a galaxy? To this day, many questions remain unanswered about these statistical nightmares, but there’s little doubt now that they’re real. But just how extraordinary are they?
As you might have guessed, a supermassive black hole (SMBH) contains a lot of mass, roughly equivalent to between a million and tens of billions of Suns. While regular black holes can be found propagating the
