NGC 1277 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation of Perseus. It is a member of the Perseus Cluster of galaxies and is located approximately 73 Mpc (megaparsecs) [2] or 220 million light-years from the Milky Way. It has an apparent magnitude of about 14.7. It was discovered on December 4, 1875 by Lawrence Parsons, 4th Earl of Rosse.

Jun 23, 2013 · NGC 1277 is a lenticular galaxy located in Perseus constellation. It lies at a distance of about 220 million light years from Earth. The galaxy has an apparent visual magnitude of 14.7. It is notable for having an exceptionally massive supermassive black hole at its centre, one of the largest black holes ever found.

Aug 21, 2023 · NGC 1277’s most extraordinary feature is perhaps the supermassive black hole at its centre, which accounts for an astonishing 14% of the galaxy’s mass – a proportion that vastly exceeds that found in most other galaxies.

Nov 28, 2012 · The small galaxy NGC 1277 is home to a colossal supermassive black hole and is embedded in the nearby Perseus galaxy cluster, at a distance of 250 million light-years from Earth.

Mar 12, 2018 · This video zooms into the relic galaxy NGC 1277 near the center of the Perseus cluster of over 1,000 galaxies, located 240 million light-years from Earth. The galaxy is unique in that it is considered a relic of what galaxies were like in the early universe.

Mar 12, 2018 · [Background image] — The galaxy lives near the center of the Perseus cluster of over 1,000 galaxies, located 240 million light-years away from Earth. NGC 1277 is moving so fast through the cluster, at 2 million miles per hour, that it cannot merge with other galaxies to collect stars or pull in gas to fuel star formation.

Image of lenticular galaxy NGC 1277 taken with Hubble Space Telescope. This small, flattened galaxy contains one of the most massive central black holes ever found. At 17 billion solar masses, the black hole weighs an extraordinary 14% of the total galaxy mass.

Mar 12, 2018 · This video zooms into the relic galaxy NGC 1277 near the center of the Perseus cluster of over 1,000 galaxies, located 240 million light-years from Earth. The galaxy is unique in that it is considered a relic of what galaxies were like in the early universe.

Nov 28, 2012 · NGC 1277. The supermassive black holes at the hearts of galaxies are sometimes described as dark monsters that feed on the stars and gas around them. Yet most of these black holes comprise only a tiny fraction of their host galaxies' total mass.

Nov 28, 2012 · Here we report observations of the stellar kinematics of NGC 1277, which is a compact, lenticular galaxy with a mass of 1.2 × 10 11 solar masses. From the data, we determine that the mass of...