Alternate Names

NGC 4374

Type

Supermassive

Location

in the constellation Virgo

Finder Chart

Distance

50 million light-years (18.4 megaparsecs)

Mass

Roughly 1.5 billion times the mass of the Sun

Size

Diameter roughly equal to the size of Neptune's orbit around the Sun, making it as big as our solar system.

Discovery Methods

• Measuring the motions of gas

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An infrared view of M84. [2MASS/UMass/IPAC-Caltech/NASA/NSF]

This document was last modified: October 24, 2005.