Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Canes Venatici (CVn)  ·  Contains:  M 106  ·  NGC 4248  ·  NGC 4258
M106 Galaxy, Luca Dinoi
M106 Galaxy
Powered byPixInsight

M106 Galaxy

M106 Galaxy, Luca Dinoi
M106 Galaxy
Powered byPixInsight

M106 Galaxy

Equipment

Loading...

Acquisition details

Loading...

Description

M106 is an example of a Seyfert galaxy; the detection of unusual emissions of radio waves and X-rays observed through the Very Large Baseline Array radio telescope indicates that probably part of the galaxy is falling into a supermassive black hole located in its center: in fact, it seems to contain a mass equal to 36 million of solar masses, concentrated in a volume between 1/24 and 1/12 of a light-year, or between 12,000 and 54,000 AU.

Comments

Sky plot

Sky plot

Histogram

M106 Galaxy, Luca Dinoi