Messier 84 information

Messier 84
Messier 84
	Galaxy Messier 84 in Virgo, imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope
Observation data (J2000 epoch)
Constellation	Virgo
Right ascension	12h 25m 03.74333s
Declination	+12° 53′ 13.1393″
Redshift	1,060±6 km/s
Heliocentric radial velocity	999 km/s
Distance	54.9 Mly (16.83 Mpc)
Apparent magnitude (V)	9.1
Absolute magnitude (V)	−22.41±0.10
Characteristics
Type	E1
Apparent size (V)	6.5′ × 5.6′
Half-light radius (apparent)	72.5″±6″
Other designations
	M84, NGC 4374, PGC 40455, UGC 7494, VCC 763

Messier 84 or M84, also known as NGC 4374, is a giant elliptical or lenticular galaxy in the constellation Virgo. Charles Messier discovered the object in 1781^[a] in a systematic search for "nebulous objects" in the night sky.^[7] It is the 84th object in the Messier Catalogue and in the heavily populated core of the Virgo Cluster of galaxies, part of the local supercluster.^[8]

This galaxy has morphological classification E1, denoting it has flattening of about 10%. The extinction-corrected total luminosity in the visual band is about 7.64×10¹⁰ L_☉. The central mass-to-light ratio is 6.5, which, to a limit, steadily increases away from the core. The visible galaxy is surrounded by a massive dark matter halo.^[5]

Radio observations and Hubble Space Telescope images of M84 have revealed two jets of matter shooting out from its center as well as a disk of rapidly rotating gas and stars indicating the presence of a 1.5 ×10⁹ M_☉^[9] supermassive black hole. It also has a few young stars and star clusters, indicating star formation at a very low rate.^[10] The number of globular clusters is 1,775±150, which is much lower than expected for an elliptical galaxy.^[11]

Viewed from Earth its half-light radius, relative angular size of its 50% peak of lit zone of the sky, is 72.5″, thus just over an arcminute.

Two supernovae have been observed in M84: SN 1957B^[12] and SN 1991bg.^[13] Seen between these dates, it may have bore a third, SN 1980I – which may have been in either neighboring galaxy NGC 4387 or M86.^[14] This high rate of supernovae is rare for elliptical galaxies, which may indicate there is a population of stars of intermediate age in M84.^[11]

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