Galaxy
A giant elliptical galaxy with an active supermassive black hole launching a jet of particles thousands of light-years long.
| Type | Galaxy |
|---|---|
| Galaxy type | Elliptical |
| Distance from Earth | 13,000,000 ly |
| Diameter | 1,164,530,000,000,000,000 km |
| Mass | 1.99 × 10^42 kg |
| Apparent magnitude | 6.84 |
| Redshift | 0.00183 |
| Hemisphere | Southern |
| Discovered | 1826 |
At 1,164,530,000,000,000,000 km across, Centaurus A is 91,393,030,921,362 times the diameter of Earth.
Its mass is 1,000,000,000,000 times the mass of the Sun.
The light reaching us from Centaurus A tonight left it around 13,000,000 years ago.
Its light arrives redshifted by z = 0.00183, stretched on the way here by the universe's expansion.
It has been on record since 1826.
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