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Black Holes Encyclopedia
Stats

Alternate Names

3C 264

Type

Supermassive

Location

in the constellation Leo

Finder Chart

Distance

260 million light-years

Mass

Unknown 0 times the mass of the Sun

Size

Unknown

Discovery Methods

Images

NGC 3862

Artist's Rendering of NGC 3862

This artist's concept depicts jets of particles shooting away from a central black hole similar to the one in the center of NGC 3862.


Fuzzy Football

NGC 3862 (center) is an elliptical galaxy, which is shaped like a fat, fuzzy football.


Core of NGC 3832

A Hubble Space Telescope image shows the jet of material shooting from the black hole at the core of NGC 3862. The core is the bright spot at right center.


NGC 3832

Images of the core of NGC 3862 from Hubble Space Telescope (left) and European radio telescopes. The radio observations show much more detail in the 'jet' of material that is squirting away from the galaxy's central black hole.


This document was last modified: January 20, 2011.