• Source: NGC 1270

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 no more than 12 billion solar masses (12×109 M☉).




Activity


Spectroscopy of NGC 1270 suggests that the galaxy contains a low-luminosity AGN (LLAGN).




See also


List of NGC objects (1001–2000)
NGC 1277
NGC 1271




References






External links



NGC 1270 on WikiSky: DSS2, SDSS, GALEX, IRAS, Hydrogen α, X-Ray, Astrophoto, Sky Map, Articles and images
http://instrumentation.tamu.edu/publications/REU/KinematicsREU2015.pdf Archived 2016-03-10 at the Wayback Machine

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