Type

Supermassive

Location

in the constellation Cetus

Finder Chart

Distance

216 million light-years (67 megaparsecs)

Mass

Unknown 0 times the mass of the Sun

Size

Unknown

Discovery Methods

• Detection of a jet
• Measuring the motions of stars

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A false-color image shows the "jet" from the black hole as red, with Minkowski's Object in blue. The small orange dots are background galaxies. []

This document was last modified: May 16, 2007.