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

NGC 6240 in a combination of visible light (blue and white) and X-rays (red, orange, and yellow) from two space telescopes. [NASA/CXC/MIT/C.Canizares, M.Nowak; NASA/STScI]

This document was last modified: March 6, 2013.