Supermassive black holes
These are the black hole behemoths, weighing in at a few million to a few billion times the mass of the Sun. These black holes inhabit the cores of galaxies.
| Name | Mass (Suns) | Distance (light-years) | |
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M105 | 60 million to 200 million | 38 million |
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M106 | 24 million to 38 million | 24 million |
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M31 | 30 million | 2.5 million |
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M32 | 3 million | 2.4 million |
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M51 | 1 million | 27 million |
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M60 | 1.6 billion to 3.4 billion | 51 million |
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M77 | 15 million | 50 million to 60 million |
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M81 | 7 million | 12 million |
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M84 | Roughly 1.5 billion | 50 million |
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M87 | 3 billion to 7 billion | 50 million |
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Milky Way Sagittarius A* | 2.6 million to 4 million | 27,000 |
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NGC 1023 | 40 million to 60 million | 33 million |
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NGC 2778 | 9 million to 36 million | 76 million |
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NGC 2787 | 36 million to 45 million | 24 million |
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NGC 3115 | 400 million to 2 billion | 32 million |
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NGC 3377 | 30 million to 120 million | 33 million |
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NGC 3516 | 23 million | 120 million |
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NGC 3783 | 8 million to 10 million | 130 million |
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NGC 3862 | Unknown | 260 million |
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NGC 4061 | 1 billion to 9 billion | 325 million |
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NGC 4261 | 500 million to 1.2 billion | 100 million |
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NGC 4473 | Roughly 100 million | 50 million |
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NGC 4697 | Roughly 175 million | 40 million |
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NGC 541 | Unknown | 216 million |
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NGC 7457 | 2.1 million to 4.6 million | 43 million |
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NGC 821 | 50 million to 100 million | 100 million |
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RX J1242-11 | 100 million | 700 million |
























