Lenticular/Elliptical Galaxy · M84

M84 — NGC 4374

M84 is a massive elliptical or lenticular galaxy near the centre of the Virgo Cluster, about 60 million light-years away. It hosts one of the largest known supermassive black holes: estimated at 1.5 billion solar masses. HST observations in

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