NGC 4753

NGC 4753 is a lenticular galaxy located about 60 million light-years away[2] in the constellation of Virgo.

[6] The distribution of dust in NGC 4753 lies in an inclined disk wrapped several times around the nucleus.

The material in the disk may have been accreted from the merger of a gas rich dwarf galaxy.

[7] Another explanation suggests that the dust in NGC 4753 originated from red giant stars in the galaxy.

[8] Analysis of the twisted disk in NGC 4753 by Steiman-Cameron et al. revealed that most of the mass in the galaxy lies in a slightly flattened spherical halo of dark matter.