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

Hubble Space Telescope view of the core of NGC 4335. The white stripes show the slices of the galaxy sampled by Hubble's spectrographs. [NASA/STScI/Kleijn et al.]

This document was last modified: July 16, 2012.