How do black holes relate to the formation of galaxies?

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Sanjay Kamath
Aug 30, 2016

They serve as galactic nuclei.

Explanation:

A supermassive black hole (SMBH) is the largest type of black hole, in the order of hundreds of thousands to billions of solar masses (M☉), and is found in the centre of almost all currently known massive galaxies. In the case of the Milky Way, the SMBH corresponds with the location of Sagittarius A*.

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