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NGC 4845

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Right ascension
  
12 58 01.2

Redshift
  
z=0.004110 (1232 km/s)

Type
  
Sab

Magnitude
  
11.2

Apparent magnitude (V)
  
11.2

Declination
  
1° 34′ 33″

Distance
  
47 Mly

Apparent size (V)
  
4′.9 × 1′.3

Constellation
  
Virgo

NGC 4845 scitechdailycomimagesHubbleViewsSpiralGalaxy

Similar
  
NGC 4866, NGC 4666, NGC 4536, NGC 4698, NGC 4762

NGC 4845 (also known as NGC 4910) is a spiral galaxy located in the constellation Virgo 47 million light years away. The galaxy was originally discovered by William Herschel in 1786.

The galaxy has a supermassive black hole at its center with a mass of 300,000 M ⊙ . In 2013, the ESA observed the black hole absorbing matter from a nearby, low-mass object; possibly a brown dwarf star. The observed X-ray flare was caught by the ESA's INTEGRAL telescope.

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