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

A Hubble Space Telescope view of the entire galaxy, which shows a prominent S-shaped inner region. [NASA/STScI/M.Malkan (UCLA)]

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