NGC 3910

NGC 3910 is a lenticular galaxy located 370 million light-years away^[2] in the Leo constellation. It was discovered on December 27, 1786, by astronomer William Herschel.^[3] NGC 3910 is a member of the NGC 3937 Group.^[4][5]

NGC 3910
SDSS image of NGC 3910
Observation data (J2000 epoch)
Constellation	Leo
Right ascension	11h 49m 59.3s[1]
Declination	21° 20′ 01″[1]
Redshift	0.026248[1]
Heliocentric radial velocity	7869 km/s[1]
Distance	370 Mly (112 Mpc)[1]
Group or cluster	NGC 3937 Group
Apparent magnitude (V)	13.83[1]
Absolute magnitude (B)	-23.42[1]
Characteristics
Type	S0[1]
Size	~182,400 ly (55.91 kpc) (estimated)[1]
Apparent size (V)	1.6′ × 1.2′[1]
Other designations
UGC 06800, MCG +04-28-058, PGC 036971[1]

NGC 3910 has a supermassive black hole with an estimated mass of 2.8 × 10⁹ M_☉.^[6]

Supernovae

Two supernovae have been observed in NGC 3910:

• SN 2013hl (Type Ia, mag. 16.7) was discovered by Kōichi Itagaki on 13 December 2013.^[7][8]
• PSN J11495885+2119018 (Type Ia-91bg, mag. 19.6) was discovered by the Catalina Real-time Transient Survey on 10 February 2015.^[9][10]

See also

• NGC 3937