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It possesses a diffuse core which is the largest known core of any galaxy to date, [5] and contains a supermassive black hole, one of the largest discovered. [5] IC 1101 is located at 354.0 megaparsecs (1.15 billion light-years) from Earth. It was discovered on 19 June 1790, by the German-British astronomer William Herschel. [6]
This is an ordered list of the most massive black holes so far discovered (and probable candidates), measured in units of solar masses (M ... IC 1101: 9.77 +17.14
The Condor Galaxy is a colossal spiral galaxy disturbed by the smaller IC 4970. It is the largest known spiral galaxy with the isophotal diameter of over 717,000 light-years (220 kiloparsecs ). [ 1 ]
IC 1101, the central galaxy of Abell 2029; Hercules A, supergiant elliptical galaxy; Maffei 1, the closest giant elliptical galaxy; CGCG 049-033, known for having the longest galactic jet discovered; Centaurus A (NGC 5128), an elliptical/lenticular radio galaxy with peculiar morphology and unusual dust lanes
Messier 49 was the first member of the Virgo Cluster of galaxies to be discovered. [8] It is the most luminous member of that cluster and more luminous than any galaxy closer to the Earth . This galaxy forms part of the smaller Virgo B subcluster 4.5° away from the dynamic center of the Virgo Cluster, centered on Messier 87 .
NGC 4845 (also known as NGC 4910) is a spiral galaxy located in the constellation Virgo around 65 million light years away. [4] The galaxy was originally discovered by William Herschel in 1786. [5]
NGC 1101 is a lenticular galaxy in the Cetus constellation, [1] [2] and is an estimated 331 million light-years away from Earth. It was discovered on 22 November 1876 by French astronomer Edouard Stephan, who described it as "very faint, small, round with a brighter middle". [3] NGC 1101 contains a flat-spectrum radio source [4] and it has a HI ...
UGC 2885 (Rubin's Galaxy, [10] nicknamed "Godzilla galaxy" [11]) is a large barred spiral galaxy of type SA(rs)c in the constellation Perseus.It is 232 million light-years (71 Mpc) from Earth and measures 463,000 ly (142,000 pc) across, making it one of the largest known spiral galaxies.