Astronomical data · SIMBAD
- Object type
- Sy2
- Redshift
- z = 0.0022775006270936426
- Morphology
- SABc
- Coordinates
- RA 165.0998° · Dec 28.9748°
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Key facts
- Constellation
- Leo Minor
- Right ascension
- 11 00 23.946
- Declination
- +28 ° 58 ′ 29.35 ″
- Redshift
- +0.004113 ± 0.000003
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- +681 km/s
- Distance
- 27.4 Mly (8.41 Mpc )
- Type
- SAB(r)c
- Apparent size v
- 7.1' × 5.3'
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 3486 is an intermediate barred spiral galaxy located about 27.4 million light years away in the constellation of Leo Minor. It has a morphological classification of SAB(r)c, which indicates it is a weakly barred spiral with an inner ring and loosely wound arms. This is a borderline, low-luminosity Seyfert galaxy with an active nucleus. However, no radio or X-ray emission has been detected from the core, and it may only have a small supermassive black hole with less than a million times the mass of the Sun.
References
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Q1105004” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.