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

A combined optical and X-ray view of the twin nuclei of NGC 6240. [NASA/CXC/MPE/S.Komossa et al.; NASA/STScI/R.P.van der Marel, J.Gerssen]

This document was last modified: March 6, 2013.