Sombrero Galaxy
spiral seen nearly edge-on
31.1 million light-years from Earth
A huge glowing bulge ringed by a dark lane of dust. It hosts about 2,000 globular clusters and a billion-solar-mass black hole.
- 31 million light-years · 50,000 light-years across
- kind
- galaxy
- catalogue
- M104 · NGC 4594
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