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We studied the accretion disc structure in the doubly imaged lensed quasar SDSS J1339+1310 using r -band light curves and UV-visible to near-IR spectra from the first 11 observational seasons after its discovery. The 2009−2019 light curves displayed pronounced microlensing variations on different timescales, and this microlensing signal permitted us to constrain the half-light radius of the 1930 Å continuum-emitting region. Assuming an accretion disc with an axis inclined at 60° to the line of sight, we obtained log( r 1/2 /cm) = 15.4 −0.4 +0.93 . We also estimated the central black hole mass from spectroscopic data. The width of the C IV , Mg II , and H β emission lines, and the continuum luminosity at 1350, 3000, and 5100 Å, led to log( M BH / M ⊙ ) = 8.6 ± 0.4. Thus, hot gas responsible for the 1930 Å continuum emission is likely orbiting a 4.0 × 10 8 M ⊙ black hole at an r 1/2 of only a few tens of Schwarzschild radii.
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