Type

Supermassive

Location

in the constellation Virgo

Distance

55 million light-years (17 megaparsecs)

Mass

500 million times the mass of the Sun

Size

Diameter roughly equal to the diameter of Saturn’s orbit around the Sun

Discovery Methods

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

NGC 4486b

A Hubble Space telescope view reveals a double nucleus in the center of NGC 4486b.

This document was last modified: March 5, 2013.