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Black Holes Encyclopedia
Stats

NGC-4342

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Type

Supermassive

Location

In the constellation Virgo

Distance

75 million light-years (23 megaparsecs)

Mass

300 million times the mass of the Sun

Size

Diameter equal to the diameter of Jupiter’s orbit around the Sun

Discovery Methods

Image

NGC 4342

A ground-based view of NGC 4342. [SDSS]

This document was last modified: November 28, 2012.