NGC 4696

NGC 4696 is an elliptical galaxy. 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] The galaxy is surrounded by many dwarf elliptical galaxies also located within the cluster.^[3] There is believed to be a supermassive black hole at the center of the galaxy.^[4]

NGC 4696
A multiwavelength image of NGC 4696. X-ray emission is red, radio emission is blue, and infrared emission is green.
Observation data (J2000 epoch)
Constellation	Centaurus
Right ascension	12h 48m 49.3s[1]
Declination	−41° 18′ 40″[1]
Redshift	2958 ± 15 km/s[1]
Distance	116 ± 9 Mly (35 ± 3 Mpc)[2]
Apparent magnitude (V)	11.4[1]
Characteristics
Type	E1 pec[1]
Apparent size (V)	4.5′ × 3.2′[1]
Other designations
PGC 43296[1]

One supernova, SN 2017ejb (type Ia, mag. 17.2), was discovered in NGC 4696 on 28 May, 2017.^[5]