Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Ursa Major (UMa)  ·  Contains:  Bode's Galaxy  ·  Cigar Galaxy  ·  M 81  ·  M 82  ·  NGC 3031  ·  NGC 3034
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M81 and M82

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M81 and M82

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M81 (also known as Bode's Galaxy and NGC 3031) is a spiral galaxy located about 11.7 Mly away and harbors a 70 million sun supermassive black hole at its nucleus. M82 (also known as the Cigar Galaxy and NGC 3034) is interacting gravitationally with M81 causing M82 to be a starburst galaxy with a high rate of star formation.

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