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Is there anything bigger than a supermassive black hole?

Answer 1

Yes, most stars.

The key word in your question is "massive." Normally, a black hole and its associated gravity are not that big. This is because it is thought that the atoms inside a black hole have contracted to the point where it is almost impossible to compress them any further.

Consider this: all atoms are made mostly of space, and if you were to place the singular proton at the center of a very large cathedral, its singular electron would be orbiting around it outside the cathedral's walls. That is how atoms are made.

To put this one step further, it is thought that all of the energy that went into creating all of the observable matter in the universe today existed in an area smaller than a subatomic particle in the second before the big bang.

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Answer 2

Levi Anderson

No, supermassive black holes are some of the universe's largest objects.

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