Type

Supermassive

Location

In the constellation Hydra

Distance

165 million light-years (50 megaparsecs)

Mass

31 million times the mass of the Sun

Size

Diameter larger than the orbit of Mercury

Discovery Methods

• Detection of an accretion disk

This composite shows visible light, from Hubble Space Telescope, in yellow and X-rays, from Chandra X-Ray Observatory, in blue. [NASA/CXC/SAO/G.Fabbiano et al/STScI]

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