ESO 383-76

ESO 383-G 076
Image by the DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys, Data Release 10.
Observation data (J2000.0 epoch)
ConstellationCentaurus
Right ascension13h 47m 28.38s
Declination−32° 51 53.9
Redshift0.03858±0.00003
Heliocentric radial velocity11,567±9.3 km/s
Galactocentric velocity11435±11 km/s
Distance200.59 ± 14.12 megaparsecs (654.2 ± 46.05 million light-years)h1
0.6774
Group or clusterAbell 3571
Apparent magnitude (V)11.252
Characteristics
TypecD5; E5; BrClG
Mass2.15×1012 M
Size540.9 kiloparsecs (1,800,000 light-years)
(diameter; 90% total B-light)
136.9 kiloparsecs (447,000 light-years)
(diameter; 25.0 mag/arcsec2 B-band isophote)
Notable featuresSupergiant elliptical galaxy; luminous X-ray source
Other designations
ESO 383- G 076; ESO 134436-3237.0; AM 1344-323; MCG -05-33-002; WISEA J134728.38-325154.0; 2MASX J13472838-3251540; 2MASS J13472837-3251536; PGC 48896 Abell 3571 001; Abell 3571 BCG; Abell 3571 cD

ESO 383-76 (ESO 383-G 076) is an elongated, X-ray luminous supergiant elliptical galaxy, residing as the dominant, brightest cluster galaxy (BCG) of the Abell 3571 galaxy cluster, the sixth-brightest in the sky at X-ray wavelengths. It is located at the distance of 200.6 megaparsecs (654 million light-years) from Earth, and is possibly a member of the large Shapley Supercluster. With a diameter of about 540.9 kiloparsecs (1.8 million light-years), it is one of the largest galaxies known. It also contains a supermassive black hole, one of the most massive known with mass estimates varying from 2 billion M to 28 billion M.