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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.

 NameMass (Suns)Distance (light-years)
M105 M105 60 million to 200 million 38 million
M106 M106 24 million to 38 million 24 million
M31 M31 30 million 2.5 million
M32 M32 3 million 2.4 million
M51 M51 1 million 27 million
M60 M60 1.6 billion to 3.4 billion 51 million
M77 M77 15 million 50 million to 60 million
M81 M81 7 million 12 million
M84 M84 Roughly 1.5 billion 50 million
M87 M87 3 billion to 7 billion 50 million
Milky Way Sagittarius A* Milky Way Sagittarius A* 2.6 million to 4 million 27,000
NGC 1023 NGC 1023 40 million to 60 million 33 million
NGC 2778 NGC 2778 9 million to 36 million 76 million
NGC 2787 NGC 2787 36 million to 45 million 24 million
NGC 3115 NGC 3115 400 million to 2 billion 32 million
NGC 3377 NGC 3377 30 million to 120 million 33 million
NGC 3516 NGC 3516 23 million 120 million
NGC 3783 NGC 3783 8 million to 10 million 130 million
No image available NGC 3862 Unknown 260 million
NGC 4061 NGC 4061 1 billion to 9 billion 325 million
NGC 4261 NGC 4261 500 million to 1.2 billion 100 million
NGC 4473 NGC 4473 Roughly 100 million 50 million
NGC 4697 NGC 4697 Roughly 175 million 40 million
NGC 541 NGC 541 Unknown 216 million
No image available NGC 7457 2.1 million to 4.6 million 43 million
No image available NGC 821 50 million to 100 million 100 million
RX J1242-11 RX J1242-11 100 million 700 million