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NGC 4151
NGC 4151 is an intermediate spiral Seyfert galaxy with weak inner ring structure located 15.8 megaparsecs (52 million light-years) from Earth in the constellation Canes Venatici. The galaxy was first mentioned by William Herschel on March 17, 1787; it was one of the six Seyfert galaxies described in the paper which defined the term. It is one of the nearest galaxies to Earth to contain an actively growing supermassive black hole. The black hole would have a mass on the order of 2.5 million to 30 million solar masses. It was speculated that the nucleus may host a binary black hole, with about 40 million and about 10 million solar masses respectively, orbiting with a 15.8-year period. This is, however, still a matter of active debate.
Some astronomers nickname it the "Eye of Sauron" from its appearance.
NGC 4151 is a member of a group of 9 galaxies known as the NGC 4151 Group. The NGC 4151 Group is part of the Ursa Major Cloud, which is part of the Virgo Supercluster.
One supernova has been observed in NGC 4151: SN 2018aoq (Type II-P, mag 15.3) was discovered by the Lick Observatory Supernova Search (LOSS) on 1 April 2018.
X-ray emission from NGC 4151 was apparently first detected on December 24, 1970, with the X-ray observatory satellite Uhuru, although the observation spanned an error-box of 0.56 square degrees and there is some controversy as to whether UHURU might not have detected the BL Lac object 1E 1207.9 +3945, which is inside their error box – the later HEAO 1 detected an X-ray source of NGC 4151 at 1H 1210+393, coincident with the optical position of the nucleus and outside the error box of Uhuru.
To explain the X-ray emission two different possibilities have been proposed:
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NGC 4151
NGC 4151 is an intermediate spiral Seyfert galaxy with weak inner ring structure located 15.8 megaparsecs (52 million light-years) from Earth in the constellation Canes Venatici. The galaxy was first mentioned by William Herschel on March 17, 1787; it was one of the six Seyfert galaxies described in the paper which defined the term. It is one of the nearest galaxies to Earth to contain an actively growing supermassive black hole. The black hole would have a mass on the order of 2.5 million to 30 million solar masses. It was speculated that the nucleus may host a binary black hole, with about 40 million and about 10 million solar masses respectively, orbiting with a 15.8-year period. This is, however, still a matter of active debate.
Some astronomers nickname it the "Eye of Sauron" from its appearance.
NGC 4151 is a member of a group of 9 galaxies known as the NGC 4151 Group. The NGC 4151 Group is part of the Ursa Major Cloud, which is part of the Virgo Supercluster.
One supernova has been observed in NGC 4151: SN 2018aoq (Type II-P, mag 15.3) was discovered by the Lick Observatory Supernova Search (LOSS) on 1 April 2018.
X-ray emission from NGC 4151 was apparently first detected on December 24, 1970, with the X-ray observatory satellite Uhuru, although the observation spanned an error-box of 0.56 square degrees and there is some controversy as to whether UHURU might not have detected the BL Lac object 1E 1207.9 +3945, which is inside their error box – the later HEAO 1 detected an X-ray source of NGC 4151 at 1H 1210+393, coincident with the optical position of the nucleus and outside the error box of Uhuru.
To explain the X-ray emission two different possibilities have been proposed: