It lies around 145,000,000 light-years (44,000,000 pc) away in the constellation Centaurus.

It is the brightest galaxy in the Centaurus Cluster, a large, rich cluster of galaxies in the constellation of the same name.

[3] There is believed to be a supermassive black hole at the center of the galaxy.

[4] One supernova, SN 2017ejb (type Ia, mag.

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