Key facts
- Constellation
- Perseus
- Right ascension
- 03 18 58.0987
- Declination
- +41 ° 28 ′ 12.467 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 4967 ± 2 km/s
- Distance
- 231.2 ± 16.2 Mly (70.90 ± 4.97 Mpc )
- Group or cluster
- Perseus Cluster
- Type
- E
- Size
- ~139,400 ly (42.75 kpc ) (estimated)
- Apparent size v
- 1.5 x 1.2
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 1270 is an elliptical galaxy located about 250 million light-years away in the constellation Perseus. It was discovered by astronomer Heinrich d'Arrest on February 14, 1863. NGC 1270 is a member of the Perseus Cluster and has an estimated age of about 11 billion years. However, Greene et al. puts the age of NGC 1270 at about 15.0 ± 0.50 Gy.
NGC 1270 has a supermassive black hole with an estimated mass of 12 billion solar masses (12×10 M☉).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 1270” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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