3842 3843 3844 3845 3846 3847 3848 3849 NGC 3800 (= PGC 36197, and with William Herschel Leo Based on a recessional velocity of 3310 km/sec, NGC 3800 is about 155 million light years away. Given that and its apparent size of 1.85 by 0.7 arcmin, it is about 85 thousand light years ...
Although in most respects NGC 3862 appears to be a perfectly normal elliptical galaxy, it contains a rotating disk of gas centered on a supermassive black hole that has created a jet-like structure moving at about 98% of the speed of light (the knots in the jet are thought to be due ...