[9] This is a nearby Seyfert (active) galaxy, located at a distance of approximately 54.6 megalight-years from the Milky Way.

[3] Since it appears to have detached spiral arm segments (either from dust lanes or bright star clusters), it was listed in Halton Arp's Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies.

The plane of the galactic disk is inclined by 64° to the line of sight from the Earth, with the major axis aligned along a position angle of 178°.

[11] Within the galaxy's core is an active galactic nucleus tentatively classified as a type I Seyfert.

The core is a source for X-ray emission that is seen to vary dramatically on time scales as low as hours.