Type

Supermassive

Location

in the constellation Ursa Major

Distance

215 million light-years (66 megaparsecs)

Mass

100 million times the mass of the Sun

Size

Diameter roughly the size of the orbit of Mars

Discovery Methods

• Measuring the motions of gas
• Measuring the motions of stars

NGC 4335

Hubble Space Telescope view of the core of NGC 4335. The white stripes show the slices of the galaxy sampled by Hubble's spectrographs.

This document was last modified: July 16, 2012.