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What is a black hole and how does it form? What is the difference to supermassive black holes? How heavy is a black hole? How do supermassive black holes get so big? Can black holes swallow each other up? Does it matter what a black hole is made of? Can two black holes of equal weight be different sizes? And since when has our expert actually been interested in his research topic? In the tenth episode of Date a Scientist, Martin Gustafsson asks many exciting questions about the topic of supermassive black holes. After a few years in Germany, he and his family are living back in Sweden. There he works as a group controller at RISE - Research Institutes in Sweden. Leibniz expert Mirko Krumpe has many exciting answers ready and looks into the universe with us. The astrophysicist researches supermassive black holes in the centers of galaxies in the Galaxies and Quasars Department at the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP). You can find out more about Mirko Krumpe and his work at the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics here: https://www.aip.de/de/members/mirko-k.... Date a Scientist is the question podcast of the Leibniz Association. Editor and Moderator: Marlen Sommer and Caroline Lodemann / www.leibniz-gemeinschaft.de/dateascientist Production: Militsa Tekelieva and Wenzel Burmeier / www.poolartists.de Graphics: Natalia Göllner / Leibniz Association Music: Steffen Dix