NGC 3115 a.k.a Spindle Galaxy

NGC 3115, a.k.a Spindle Galaxy or Cadwell 35 or PGC 29265 a field lenticular galaxy (class S0) ~32 million light years away in Sextans. It has consumed most of the gas when it was young and now has no new star formation and majority of its stars are very old. Has a super massive black hole with mass ~2 billion times of our sun, making it the nearest billion solar mass black hole to earth.

The faint oval shaped object just beside it on left is irregular galaxy PGC29299, one study puts it as one of the 27 supposed satellites of NGC 3115.

LRGB 6h 40m (4x10x600s) from CHI-1 telescope, a Planewave CDK24 with FLI PL 9000 camera, and Astrodon 2nd GEN LRGB filters, situated in the Rio Hurtado Valley, Chile. Part of the telescope.live telescope network. Taken on 06-07,09 March 2022.

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