[1] It has a redshift of 0.140,[3] and was discovered by astronomers in 1992 who conducted the Einstein IPC Slew Survey.

[12] Because of its hard spectrum, the galaxy was used as a primary source to examine extragalactic background light and intergalactic magnetic fields.

[5] The supermassive black hole in the center of 1ES 0229+220 is 9.38 ± 9.08 Mʘ based on a fundamental plane measurement.

[16][17] Both of the jets located north and south, are found to be curved towards a west direction and they have position angles of -10° and 180° respectively.

Although no clear associations are found relating with the signal, it has a point-like nature and a steep energy spectrum.