Type

Supermassive

Location

in the constellation Virgo

Finder Chart

Distance

50 million light-years (15.7 megaparsecs)

Mass

Roughly 100 million times the mass of the Sun

Size

Diameter roughly equal to the size of the asteroid belt in our own solar system.

Discovery Methods

• Measuring the motions of stars

1

A ground-based telescopic view of NGC 4473. [2MASS]

This document was last modified: October 24, 2005.