RA 4.2853° · Dec 81.5856° · blackhole
12 more points to reach Mythic.
S5 0014+81 is an anomaly black hole. It lies about 1.19×10^10 light-years from Earth and sits in the constellation Cep.
Gas spiralling in is squeezed and heated to millions of degrees before it falls, so the disc around it blazes brighter than anything else in the neighbourhood.
Look for S5 0014+81 in the constellation Cep.
Like any astronomical target, S5 0014+81 is best seen from a dark site away from city lights, and when it is above the horizon depends on your latitude and the time of year. The visibility panel above works out tonight's viewing window for your saved location.
S5 0014+81 scores 108 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the anomaly tier. Another 12 points would lift it into a rarer tier.
That score comes from 7 science badges — Black hole, Outside our galaxy entirely, Never sets (northern circumpolar), Monster: over a billion Suns, Quasar: outshining its whole galaxy, Firing a relativistic jet and Seen across cosmic time (z > 1) — each earned for a real, measurable property of the object. Rarity on Spacedle is never random: the more remarkable an object's astrophysics, the more badges it collects, the higher it scores, and the rarer it ranks.