NGC 4696

id: ngc-4696-316-4933365
title: NGC 4696
text: NGC 4696 is an elliptical galaxy. It lies around 145,000,000 light-years (44,000,000 pc) away in the constellation Centaurus. It is the brightest galaxy in the Centaurus Cluster, a large, rich cluster of galaxies in the constellation of the same name. The galaxy is surrounded by many dwarf elliptical galaxies also located within the cluster. There is believed to be a supermassive black hole at the center of the galaxy. One supernova, SN 2017ejb, was discovered in NGC 4696 on 28 May, 2017.
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description: Elliptical galaxy in the constellation Centaurus
original url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NGC_4696
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date modified: 2023-06-28T19:39:23Z
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image: {"content_url":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/05/Ngc4696.jpg","width":720,"height":479}
fields total: 13
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