Alternate Names

K16

Type

Stellar mass

Location

in the constellation Aquarius

Distance

16,000 light-years

Mass

16 times the mass of the Sun

Size

Diameter roughly 60 miles (96 km)

Discovery Methods

• Detection of an accretion disk
• Measuring the motions of a companion star

A radio image shows blobs of material carried in the jets from SS433. The image spans about 200 billion miles (325 billion km). [NRAO/AUI/NSF/Mioduszewski et al.]

This document was last modified: June 5, 2007.