One of my own personal favourite galaxies, M104 lies 28 million light years from Earth in the constellation of Virgo. While similar in size and width to the Milky Way, the galaxy is thought to house a supermassive black hole, 1 billion times the mass of our Sun. Compare that to the Milky Way’s 4.1 million times the mass of the Sun.
Although the galaxy looks quite different to our own, it is thought to be a spiral galaxy viewed edge on.
This image was taken recently and featured in APOD
