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NGC 1271

NGC 1271 is a compact elliptical or lenticular galaxy located about 250 million light-years away in the constellation Perseus. The galaxy was discovered by astronomer Guillaume Bigourdan on November 14, 1884. NGC 1271 is a member of the Perseus Cluster and has a nuclear dust disk in its center. It also has an edge-on, intermediate-scale disk and has a central bulge. Like NGC 1277, NGC 1271 is a candidate "relic galaxy".

Using orbital-based stellar dynamical models, Walsh et al. determined that the supermassive black hole in the center of NGC 1271 has a mass of 3.0+1.0
−1.1
×109 M
.

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