The Galaxy NGC 4450 is Host to a Supermassive Black Hole
The nearby spiral galaxy NGC 4450 is one of the galaxies in which Hans-Walter Rix and collaborators have identified a supermassive black hole. The picture reveals nothing unusual in the galaxy centre. Yet, the group of astronomers have measured wildly rotating gas in a disk around the centre of the galaxy with the STIS instrument onboard Hubble.
Credit:ESA HEIC/Hans-Walter Rix
About the Image
Id: | heic0002b |
Type: | Observation |
Release date: | 5 June 2000, 15:00 |
Related releases: | heic0002 |
Size: | 1478 x 1506 px |
About the Object
Name: | NGC 4450 |
Type: | Local Universe : Galaxy : Type : Spiral Local Universe : Galaxy : Component : Central Black Hole |
Distance: | 55 million light years |
Constellation: | Coma Berenices |
Category: | Galaxies |
Coordinates
Position (RA): | 12 28 28.21 |
Position (Dec): | 17° 5' 20.77" |
Field of view: | 2.45 x 2.50 arcminutes |
Orientation: | North is 84.2° right of vertical |
Colours & filters
Band | Wavelength | Telescope |
---|---|---|
Optical V | 555 nm |
Hubble Space Telescope
WFPC2 |
Infrared I | 814 nm |
Hubble Space Telescope
WFPC2 |