Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Coma Berenices (Com)  ·  Contains:  IC 4040  ·  IC 4041  ·  IC 4045  ·  IC 4051  ·  NGC 4871  ·  NGC 4872  ·  NGC 4873  ·  NGC 4874  ·  NGC 4876  ·  NGC 4886  ·  NGC 4889  ·  NGC 4907  ·  NGC 4908
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Part of the Coma cluster - virtually every point of light in this image is a remote galaxy.

NGC 4889, top right, actually hosts the largest known black hole in the universe, at least 9.7 billion times more massive than our Sun.

Distance to the Coma cluster : an amazing several hundred million Light Years.

Taken during March, seeing not great. 30 x 120 second exposures.

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