NGC 997

id: ngc-997-181-5227615
title: NGC 997
text: NGC 997 is an interacting galaxy in the constellation of Cetus. The galaxy was discovered by Albert Marth on 10 November 1863. It has a regularly rotating central molecular gas disk, containing a black hole of between 4 x 10⁷ and 1.8 x 10⁹ solar masses. Its speed relative to the cosmological background is 6,270 ± 45 km/s, corresponding to a Hubble distance of 92.5 ± 6.5 Mpc. NGC 997 is accompanied by PGC 200205, also designated as NGC 997 NED01, a compact galaxy. No data is available for the lat
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description: Interacting Galaxy in the constellation Cetus
original url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NGC_997
date created: 2020-07-21T03:04:58Z
date modified: 2024-09-05T21:41:06Z
main entity: {"identifier":"Q1040809","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1040809"}
image: {"content_url":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5a/NGC_0997_SDSS.jpg","width":1107,"height":785}
fields total: 13
integrity: 16

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