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The Circinus Galaxy, a Type II Seyfert galaxy. Seyfert galaxies are one of the two largest groups of active galaxies, along with quasar host galaxies. They have quasar-like nuclei (very luminous sources of electromagnetic radiation that are outside of our own galaxy) with very high surface brightnesses whose spectra reveal strong, high-ionisation emission lines, [1] but unlike quasars, their ...
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Seyfert's Sextet is a group of galaxies about 190 million light-years away [2] in the constellation Serpens. The group appears to contain six members, but one of the galaxies, NGC 6027d , is a background object (700 million light years behind the group) and another "galaxy," NGC 6027e , is actually a part of the tail from galaxy NGC 6027 .
NGC 3393 has been characterised as a Seyfert galaxy, a galaxy category which features bright point-like nuclei.NGC 3393 is a type II Seyfert galaxy. Its X-ray spectrum is more consistent with a Compton-thick cold reflection source, which means that the source is hidden behind dense material, mainly gas and dust, and the X-rays observed have been reflected.
NGC 3147 has been characterised as a Seyfert II galaxy. It is considered the best candidate to be a true type II Seyfert galaxy, [4] galaxies which feature optical/UV spectrum lacking broad emission lines due to the lack of the broad line region rather than its obscuration, since the nucleus is simultaneously seen unobscured in the X-rays.
Second, this galaxy has an active nucleus. This caused Carl Seyfert in 1943 to include it in his list of galaxies, which are now called Seyfert Galaxies. However, NGC 3077, though an emission line galaxy, is today no longer classified as a Seyfert galaxy. NGC 3077 was discovered by William Herschel on November 8, 1801. He remarked that "On the ...
NGC 5548 is a Type I Seyfert galaxy with a bright, active nucleus. [9] This activity is caused by matter flowing onto a 65 million solar mass ( M ☉ ) supermassive black hole at the core. [ 10 ] Morphologically , this is an unbarred lenticular galaxy with tightly-wound spiral arms , while shell and tidal tail features suggest that it has ...