UGC 3478 is a spiral galaxy located in the constellation of Camelopardalis.Hiding a bright secret, 26 August 2024, ESA/Hubble & NASA, M. Koss, A. Barth, esahubble.orgHubble Space Telescope Gazes at UGC 3478, 26 August 2024, Enrico de Lazaro, www.sci.news Its velocity with respect to the cosmic microwave background is , which corresponds to a Hubble distance of . However, three non-redshift measurements give a closer mean distance of .Hubble photographs a galaxy with a growing black hole, 30 August 2024, Mykyta Lytvynov, universemagazine.com The first known reference to this galaxy comes from Part 1 of the Morphological Catalogue of Galaxies, published in 1962, where it is listed as MCG +11-08-054.
UGC 3478 features a growing supermassive black hole (AGN) at its center.Galaxy with an ultra-bright core is concealing a secret, 28 August 2024, Eric Ralls, Earth.com
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