It has an X-ray spectrum fitted by an estimated power law of Γ = 1.8 with an undetermined iron line likely originating from distant matter.

In July 1995, its powerful gamma-ray flux was detected during a High Energy Astronomical Telescope balloon flight, suggesting its hard X-ray spectral feature was caused by a double-Compton backscattering exerted on its external cloud.

[11] In November 2014, data from the observation by the 118 ks Chandra High Energy Transmission Gratings found MCG +8-11-11 shows lack of warm absorption and its Compton reflection signatures are described by out of direction material from the naked eye, based on an inclination angle of θ = 41+18−30 obtained by a MYTorus model.

[9] Between 2019 and 2020, it was determined that MCG +8-11-11 has a host-corrected AGN luminosity of 5100 Ά of (4.21 ± 0.65) x 1043 erg s−1 and a large disk-size according to a photometric reverberation mapping conducted by the Wise Observatory.

The source is also found embedded in diffused emission with a major-axis position angle similar to its bar but offset by 50 degrees.