Alternate Names

NGC 3379

Type

Supermassive

Location

in the constellation Leo

Finder Chart

Distance

38 million light-years

Mass

60 million to 200 million times the mass of the Sun

Size

Larger than Earth's orbit around the Sun, but smaller than Jupiter's orbit

Discovery Methods

• Measuring the motions of gas

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A lane of dark dust cuts across the core of M105 in this Hubble Space Telescope image. [NASA/Karl Gebhardt/Todd Lauer]

This document was last modified: February 1, 2006.