Right ascension 12 42 36.9 Distance 650 Mly (200 Mpc) Constellation Virgo | Declination -11° 19´ 35´´ Type spiral | |
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Notable features Pair of Galaxies = [KG99] A + [KG99] B. Similar Abell 1835 IR1916, SN 2006gy, NGC 4309, HVC 127‑41‑330, NGC 4555 | ||
Rx j1242 11 galaxy black hole rips apart star
RX J1242-11 is an elliptical galaxy located approximately 200 megaparsecs (about 650 million light-years) from Earth. According to current interpretations of X-ray observations made by the Chandra X-ray Observatory and XMM-Newton, the centre of this galaxy is a 100 million solar mass supermassive black hole which was observed to have tidally disrupted a star. The discovery is widely considered to be the first strong evidence of a supermassive black hole ripping apart a star and consuming a portion of it.
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