Q1113517
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Key facts
- Constellation
- Centaurus
- Right ascension
- 12 48 49.3
- Declination
- −41 ° 18 ′ 40 ″
- Redshift
- 2958 ± 15 km/ s
- Distance
- 116 ± 9 Mly (35 ± 3 Mpc )
- Type
- E1 pec
- Apparent size v
- 4.5 ′ × 3.2 ′
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- elliptical galaxy
- Constellation
- Centaurus
- Distance from Earth
- 35.04
- Image
- NGC 4696 Hubble WikiSky.jpg
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- catalog code
- SUMSS J124849-411842
- redshift
- 0.009867
- Commons category
- NGC 4696
- discoverer or inventor
- James Dunlop
- time of discovery or invention
- 1826-00-00
- galaxy morphological type
- S...
- apparent magnitude
- 7.142
- right ascension
- 192.2053208
- declination
- -41.3110889
- radial velocity
- 2983
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 4696 is an elliptical galaxy. It lies around 145,000,000 light-years (44,000,000 pc) away in the constellation Centaurus. It is the brightest galaxy in the Centaurus Cluster, a large, rich cluster of galaxies in the constellation of the same name. The galaxy is surrounded by many dwarf elliptical galaxies also located within the cluster. There is believed to be a supermassive black hole at the center of the galaxy.
One supernova, SN 2017ejb (type Ia, mag. 17.2), was discovered in NGC 4696 on 28 May, 2017.
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