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galaxy

Key facts

Constellation
Leo
Right ascension
11 52 42.6
Declination
20 ° 37 ′ 53 ″
Heliocentric radial velocity
6668 km/s
Distance
311 Mly (95.3 Mpc )
Group or cluster
NGC 3937 Group
Type
E, S0^-
Size
~200,000 ly (62 kpc ) (estimated)
Apparent size v
1.8 x 1.6

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Encyclopedic overview

NGC 3937 is an elliptical or a lenticular galaxy located about 310 million light-years away in the constellation Leo. It was discovered by astronomer William Herschel on April 27, 1785 and is classified as a radio galaxy.

NGC 3937 is host to supermassive black hole with an estimated mass of 3.7 × 10 M☉.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 3937” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.