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Black Holes Encyclopedia
Stats

Type

Supermassive

Location

in the constellation Lynx

Distance

76 million light-years (23 megaparsecs)

Mass

9 million to 36 million times the mass of the Sun

Size

From smaller than Mercury's orbit to as large as Venus' orbit

Discovery Methods

Images

NGC 2778

NGC 2778

A Hubble Space Telescope image of clouds of gas billowing around the black hole at the core of NGC 2778.


This document was last modified: November 19, 2009.