Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Virgo (Vir)  ·  Contains:  M 104  ·  NGC 4594  ·  Sombrero Galaxy
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M104, Sombrero Galaxy, Doug Summers
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M104, Sombrero Galaxy

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M104, Sombrero Galaxy

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Residing ~30 million light-years away in the Virgo cluster of galaxies,  the Sombrero galaxy is one of the most massive objects in the cluster.  It contains about 800 billion solar masses.  The galaxy itself is fairly small, only 50K light years in diameter, but it has a huge halo and a billion solar mass black hole.   M104's globular cluster count is estimated at 2000 clusters, 10 times more than the Milky Way.   The prominent dust lane, faint but visible internal disk structure, and huge extent of the halo are trademarks of this object.

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