Many galaxies appear to have supermassive black holes in their centers powering active galactic nuclei (also called AGN). TheSchwarzschild radius of these supermassive black holes can be estimated in part by watching for changes in the brightness of thesurrounding AGN and measuring the timescale of those changes.Assume we observe an AGN and determine it varies with a timescale of 9.85 minutes, which implies a Schwarzschild radius on the orderof 1.77x1011 meters. Estimate the mass of this supermassive black hole.kg

From equation of Schwarzschild Radius equation we can calculate mass of supermassive black hole.

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