Supermassive black hole

Quality:

Supermassive black hole - black hole with mass above 10⁵ solar masses, usually found at the centers of galaxies. Article “Supermassive black hole” in Simple English Wikipedia has 39.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 12 references and 3 sections.

This article has the best quality in Korean Wikipedia. However, the most popular language version of this article is English.

Since the creation of article “Supermassive black hole”, its content was written by 17 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1738 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 59 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 7871 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #274 in November 2012
• Global: #216 in April 2019

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #4418 in November 2013
• Global: #1386 in April 2019

There are 43 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2026 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	Korean (ko) 초대질량 블랙홀		92.0631
2	English (en) Supermassive black hole		88.0581
3	Croatian (hr) Supermasivna crna rupa		76.7365
4	Bulgarian (bg) Свръхмасивна черна дупка		61.3529
5	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Supermasivna crna rupa		60.5642
6	Russian (ru) Сверхмассивная чёрная дыра		54.1889
7	Portuguese (pt) Buraco negro supermassivo		49.4723
8	Catalan (ca) Forat negre supermassiu		44.8418
9	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Supermassivt svart hòl		43.0186
10	Ukrainian (uk) Надмасивна чорна діра		42.6656

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Supermassive black hole		9 564 789
2	Russian (ru) Сверхмассивная чёрная дыра		1 775 444
3	Spanish (es) Agujero negro supermasivo		1 394 973
4	Japanese (ja) 超大質量ブラックホール		1 237 084
5	French (fr) Trou noir supermassif		816 793
6	Italian (it) Buco nero supermassiccio		618 506
7	Polish (pl) Supermasywna czarna dziura		462 907
8	Chinese (zh) 超大質量黑洞		361 193
9	Portuguese (pt) Buraco negro supermassivo		350 311
10	Arabic (ar) ثقب أسود فائق الكتلة		191 389

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Supermassive black hole		29 370
2	Russian (ru) Сверхмассивная чёрная дыра		7 720
3	Japanese (ja) 超大質量ブラックホール		4 209
4	French (fr) Trou noir supermassif		2 177
5	Spanish (es) Agujero negro supermasivo		2 122
6	Italian (it) Buco nero supermassiccio		1 425
7	Polish (pl) Supermasywna czarna dziura		1 293
8	Chinese (zh) 超大質量黑洞		1 188
9	Portuguese (pt) Buraco negro supermassivo		751
10	Persian (fa) سیاه‌چاله کلان‌جرم		610

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Supermassive black hole		672
2	French (fr) Trou noir supermassif		136
3	Russian (ru) Сверхмассивная чёрная дыра		99
4	Italian (it) Buco nero supermassiccio		96
5	Spanish (es) Agujero negro supermasivo		91
6	Chinese (zh) 超大質量黑洞		51
7	Hebrew (he) חור שחור על-מסיבי		41
8	Japanese (ja) 超大質量ブラックホール		39
9	Polish (pl) Supermasywna czarna dziura		39
10	Hungarian (hu) Nagyon nagy tömegű fekete lyuk		36

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Supermassive black hole		4
2	Russian (ru) Сверхмассивная чёрная дыра		2
3	Spanish (es) Agujero negro supermasivo		1
4	French (fr) Trou noir supermassif		1
5	Indonesian (id) Lubang hitam supermasif		1
6	Korean (ko) 초대질량 블랙홀		1
7	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Supermasivna crna rupa		1
8	Arabic (ar) ثقب أسود فائق الكتلة		0
9	Bulgarian (bg) Свръхмасивна черна дупка		0
10	Catalan (ca) Forat negre supermassiu		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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