NGC 4889 Black Hole

Black Hole

One of the most massive black holes ever measured, sitting at the center of a giant elliptical galaxy in the Coma Cluster.

Facts

TypeBlack Hole
Black hole typeSupermassive
Distance from Earth308,000,000 ly
Diameter124,000,000,000 km
Mass4.18 × 10^40 kg
Apparent magnitude11.4
Redshift0.0225
HemisphereNorthern
Discovered2011

NGC 4889 Black Hole in context

Its mass is 21,015,585,721 times the mass of the Sun.

The light reaching us from NGC 4889 Black Hole tonight left it around 308,000,000 years ago.

Its light arrives redshifted by z = 0.0225, stretched on the way here by the universe's expansion.

It has been on record since 2011.

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