A supermassive black hole is the largest type of black hole, with masses from hundreds of thousands to billions of times the Sun's mass. Found at the centers of most large galaxies, including our Milky Way, these objects power quasars and active galactic nuclei. The Event Horizon Telescope has directly imaged two: Sagittarius A* and the black hole in Messier 87.
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