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Black Holes Encyclopedia
Stats

Type

Supermassive

Location

In the constellation Coma Berenices

Distance

335 million light-years (103 megaparsecs)

Mass

9.8 billion to 27 billion times the mass of the Sun

Size

Diameter roughly 6 to 17 times the size of the orbit of Neptune

Discovery Methods

Images

NGC 4889

NGC 4889

A combined infrared and visible-light image shows many of the galaxies of the Coma Cluster, including the massive elliptical galaxies NGC 4889 (bright object just left of center) and NGC 4874.


COMA Atlas

NGC 4889, the bright blob at left center, is one of the largest galaxies in the Coma Cluster.


NGC 4889

NGC 4889 is the yellow oval at right center.


This document was last modified: March 15, 2012.