Galaxy in the constellation Perseus
NGC 1270 is an elliptical galaxy located about 250 million light-years away[ 2] in the constellation Perseus .[ 3] It was discovered by astronomer Heinrich d'Arrest on February 14, 1863.[ 4] NGC 1270 is a member of the Perseus Cluster [ 5] [ 4] and has an estimated age of about 11 billion years.[ 6] However, Greene et al. puts the age of NGC 1270 at about 15.0 ± 0.50 Gy .[ 7]
NGC 1270 has a supermassive black hole [ 8] with an estimated mass of no more than 12 billion solar masses ( 12× 109 M ☉ ).[ 9]
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^ a b "New General Catalog Objects: NGC 1250 - 1299" . cseligman.com . Retrieved 2018-06-15 .
^ Brunzendorf, J.; Meusinger, H. (October 1, 1999). "The galaxy cluster Abell 426 (Perseus). A catalogue of 660 galaxy positions, isophotal magnitudes and morphological types" . Astronomy and Astrophysics Supplement Series . 139 (1): 141–161. Bibcode :1999A&AS..139..141B . doi :10.1051/aas:1999111 . ISSN 0365-0138 .
^ Greene, Jenny E.; Murphy, Jeremy D.; Graves, Genevieve J.; Gunn, James E.; Raskutti, Sudhir; Comerford, Julia M.; Gebhardt, Karl (2013). "The Stellar Halos of Massive Elliptical Galaxies. II. Detailed Abundance Ratios at Large Radius" . The Astrophysical Journal . 776 (2): 64. arXiv :1308.2682 . Bibcode :2013ApJ...776...64G . doi :10.1088/0004-637X/776/2/64 . ISSN 0004-637X . S2CID 118638136 .
^ Greene, Jenny E.; Murphy, Jeremy D.; Comerford, Julia M.; Gebhardt, Karl; Adams, Joshua J. (2012-04-13). "The Stellar Halos of Massive Elliptical Galaxies" . The Astrophysical Journal . 750 (1): 32. arXiv :1202.4464 . Bibcode :2012ApJ...750...32G . doi :10.1088/0004-637X/750/1/32 . ISSN 0004-637X . S2CID 118480768 .
^ Fabian, A. C.; Sanders, J. S.; Haehnelt, M.; Rees, M. J.; Miller, J. M. (2013-02-01). "X-ray emission from the ultramassive black hole candidate NGC 1277: implications and speculations on its origin" . Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters . 431 (1): L38–L42. arXiv :1301.1800 . Bibcode :2013MNRAS.431L..38F . doi :10.1093/mnrasl/slt004 . ISSN 1745-3933 . S2CID 119195931 .
^ Ferré-Mateu, Anna; Mezcua, Mar ; Trujillo, Ignacio; Balcells, Marc; Bosch, Remco C. E. van den (2015-07-21). "Massive relic galaxies challenge the co-evolution of SMBHs and their host galaxies". The Astrophysical Journal . 808 (1): 79. arXiv :1506.02663 . Bibcode :2015ApJ...808...79F . doi :10.1088/0004-637X/808/1/79 . ISSN 1538-4357 . S2CID 118777377 .