Supermassive black holes

5 CATALOGUED

Regions where gravity wins. From stellar remnants a few times the Sun's mass to the giants anchoring entire galaxies.

RANKED LISTS
Nearest▸
Gaia BH1 — 1560 ly away
TOP 14
Largest▸
TON 618 — 6.6×10¹⁰ M☉
TOP 14
ALL CLASSESSTELLAR-MASS BLACK HOLE · 7SUPERMASSIVE BLACK HOLE · 5INTERMEDIATE-MASS BLACK HOLE · 2
BY CONSTELLATION · 11 REGIONS
CYGNUS · 2VIRGO · 2AQUILA · 1CANES VENATICI · 1CENTAURUS · 1HYDRA · 1MONOCEROS · 1OPHIUCHUS · 1PERSEUS · 1PHOENIX · 1SAGITTARIUS · 1
NAME▲
CLASS
MASS
DISTANCE
MAG
CONSTELLATION
3C 273*★
Supermassive black hole
8.86×10⁸ M☉
2.440 Gly
—
Virgo
M87*★
Supermassive black hole
6.5×10⁹ M☉
53.50 Mly
—
Virgo
NGC 1277*★
Supermassive black hole
1.2×10¹⁰ M☉
220.0 Mly
—
Perseus
Sagittarius A*★
Supermassive black hole
4.15×10⁶ M☉
26 673 ly
—
Sagittarius
TON 618★
Supermassive black hole
6.6×10¹⁰ M☉
10.80 Gly
—
Canes Venatici

5 OBJECTS