Alternate Names

IC 4625

Type

Supermassive

Location

in the constellation Ophiuchus

Distance

320 million light-years (98 megaparsecs)

Mass

870 million to 2 billion times the mass of the Sun

Size

Diameter roughly equal to the diameter of Uranus' or Neptune's orbit around the Sun

Discovery Methods

• Measuring the motions of stars

This image from Chandra X-Ray Observatory shows the two black-hole nuclei as white and blue blobs near the center. [NASA/CXC/S.Komossa et al.]

This document was last modified: March 6, 2013.