Cosmos M104

This is the galaxy of the sombrero catalogued M104 very famous for its very thick dust disk.
Located about 28 million light-years away in the direction of the Virgo constellation, M104 is a very peculiar galaxy due to its morphology (classified spiral/elliptical!), it is seen by the slice and has a very active core in which resides a super massive black hole whose mass is about 800 million solar masses.
M104 is moving away from us at a speed of about 1000 Km /s.
With a diameter of about 70,000 light-years, the sombrero galaxy has a very important procession of globular clusters (about 2,000) that orbit around it.

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