Alternate Names

UGC 2514

Type

Supermassive

Location

In the constellation Cetus

Finder Chart

Distance

170 million light-years (52 megaparsecs)

Mass

65 million times the mass of the Sun

Size

Diameter larger than Earth's orbit around the Sun

Discovery Methods

• Measuring the motions of gas

NGC 1194

A Sloan Digital Sky Survey image of NGC 1194

This document was last modified: March 15, 2012.