[3] The Fourcade-Figueroa Object was discovered in May 1970, by two astronomers, Carlos Raúl Fourcade from Argentina and Egardo Javier Figueroa from Chile while capturing the Centaurus A region with a Curtis-Schmidt camera at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory.

According to Dottori and Fourcade, it is said to be associated with Centaurus A as a shred (a galactic remnant resulting from a galaxy merger).

In the year 1978, Graham reached a conclusion and found the object is a late-type galaxy.

[9] The Fourcade-Figueroa Object is found to be large with knots of resolved stars extending along the major axis by a distance of 15 arc minutes.

[7] It has an inclination angle between 86 and 90 degrees and is surrounded by a cloud of neutral hydrogen, that is dissolving its mass by 5%.