Type

Supermassive

Location

In the constellation Grus

Distance

100 million light-years (30.3 megaparsecs)

Mass

350 million to 2.5 billion times the mass of the Sun

Size

Diameter roughly the size of the orbit of Jupiter to larger than the orbit of Neptune

Discovery Methods

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

Ground-based view of IC 1459. [SDSS]

This document was last modified: November 28, 2012.