ULAS-J1120-0641

FAIL2 FAIL3 

Type

Supermassive

Location

In the constellation Leo

Distance

13 billion light-years (4 gigaparsecs)

Mass

2 billion times the mass of the Sun

Size

Larger than the diameter of Neptune's orbit around the Sun

Discovery Methods

• Detection of an accretion disk
• Measuring the motions of gas

Zooming in on the quasar. []

This document was last modified: August 2, 2016.