Alternate Names

NGC 3379

Type

Supermassive

Location

in the constellation Leo

Finder Chart

Distance

38 million light-years

Mass

60 million to 200 million times the mass of the Sun

Size

Larger than Earth's orbit around the Sun, but smaller than Jupiter's orbit

Discovery Methods

• Measuring the motions of gas

M105

M105 is the large, bright galaxy at right. Along with the galaxy at top left, NGC 3384, M 105 is a member of the Leo I group of galaxies. The other galaxy in this image is unrelated.

A lane of dark dust cuts across the core of M105 in this Hubble Space Telescope image.

This document was last modified: March 15, 2012.