Alternate Names

3C 264

Type

Supermassive

Location

in the constellation Leo

Finder Chart

Distance

260 million light-years

Mass

Unknown 0 times the mass of the Sun

Size

Unknown

Discovery Methods

• Measuring the motions of gas

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Images of the core of NGC 3862 from Hubble Space Telescope (left) and European radio telescopes. The radio observations show much more detail in the 'jet' of material that is squirting away from the galaxy's central black hole. []

This document was last modified: September 17, 2010.