NGC 1428 is a peculiar galaxy[4] of an uncertain morphology; either an elliptical or lenticular galaxy[5] located approximately 65 million light-years away from Earth.

[10] NGC 1428 is host to a nuclear star cluster with an estimated mass ranging from 1.4 × 107 [11] to 2.2 × 107 M☉.

[12] It is thought that this nuclear star cluster which surrounded by a nuclear stellar disk formed from multiple instances of gas acrecction and subsequent episodes of star formation.

The presence of counter-rotating population of stars suggests the occurrence of mergers that occurred in the opposite direction of the rotation of NGC 1428.

[11] The galaxy has a supermassive black hole with an estimated mass of 4.1 × 107 M☉.