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Markarian 231

Quasar / active galaxy · Seyfert galaxy in the constellation Ursa Major

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Markarian 231
Picture: NASA, ESA, the Hubble Heritage (STScI/AURA)-ESA/Hubble Collaboration, and A. Evans (University of Virginia, Charlottesville/NRAO/Stony Brook University), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

About Markarian 231

The light we see from it set out 0.591 billion years ago, when the universe was 13.2 billion years old (redshift 0.0422).

The map lists it as a quasar / active galaxy and shows it at the scale of the large-scale universe, drawn on the supergalactic plane.

The nearest known quasar.

Key numbers

Distance (comoving, today)0.604 billion light-years (185 Mpc)
Redshift z0.0422
Light travel time0.591 billion years
Universe's age when this light left13.2 billion years
Distance methodredshift (Planck 2018 cosmology)
Supergalactic coordinatesSGL 60.6°, SGB +13.3°

Where it is

Its place in the universe, from the inside out: Observable universe.

Zoom out to see it in context: Nearby superclusters, a view about 2.3 billion light-years across.

From Wikipedia

Markarian 231 is a Type-1 Seyfert galaxy that was discovered in 1969 as part of a search for galaxies with strong ultraviolet radiation.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article Markarian 231, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

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