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

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An animation of the precession, or "wobble,"� of the jets from the black hole in SS433. [Mioduszewski et al. 2004]

This document was last modified: June 5, 2007.