M86

lenticular galaxy · Markarian's Chain · Virgo Cluster

58.3 million light-years from Earth

One of the few galaxies coming toward us. It falls through the Virgo Cluster toward us at about 1,300 km/s, faster than the cluster itself moves away from us, so its light is shifted to the blue. Its hot gas streams off behind it in a long plume.

• 58.3 million light-years · about 150,000 light-years across
• coming toward us at about 240 km/s

kind

galaxy

catalogue

M86 · NGC 4406

size

150,000 light-years across