A supermassive black hole is a black hole with a mass of the order of between 105 and 1010 solar masses. Most, if not all, galaxies, including the Milky Way, are believed to contain supermassive black holes at their centers.
Supermassive black holes have properties which distinguish them from their relatively low-mass cousins:
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