Alternate Names

SDSS J092712.65+294344.0

Type

Supermassive

Location

In the constellation Leo

Distance

6.5 billion light-years (2000 megaparsecs)

Mass

600 million times the mass of the Sun

Size

Roughly equal to the diameter of Saturn's orbit around the Sun

Discovery Methods

• Detection of an accretion disk
• Measuring the motions of gas

An artist's concept shows a supermassive black hole and its encircling disk of gas and stars being ejected from the center of its home galaxy. [Tim Jones/McDonald Observatory]

This document was last modified: May 13, 2013.