Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Leo (Leo)  ·  Contains:  NGC 3222  ·  NGC 3226  ·  NGC 3227
Interacting NGC3226 and NGC3227, Alvaro12345
Interacting NGC3226 and NGC3227
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Interacting NGC3226 and NGC3227

Interacting NGC3226 and NGC3227, Alvaro12345
Interacting NGC3226 and NGC3227
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Interacting NGC3226 and NGC3227

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NGC 3227 and NGC3226 are interacting galaxies with an apparent magnitude of ~11, with a distance of about ~77 million light years.  Somehow the remind me of M51.  NGC3227 seems to contain a supermassive black hole of ~1.4x10^7 solar masses (BTW the Sagittarius A* is estimated at ~4.15x10^6 solar masses).  Now for some weird things: At the accretion disk X-Rays radiation is re-processed  into visible light with a two day delay, and IR light lags by 20 days [From Wikipedia] Does any one knows why the time lag of EM emissions as you look at lower energies/larger wavelengths?BTW: if you look carefully (squint) to left side of the interacting galaxies, you can see the tides in a shape of an O attached to them.

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Interacting NGC3226 and NGC3227, Alvaro12345