NGC 4388 is an active spiral galaxy in the equatorial constellation of Virgo. It was discovered April 17, 1784 by William Herschel. [6] This galaxy is located at a distance of 57 million light years [3] and is receding with a radial velocity of 2,524km/s. [2] It is one of the brightest galaxies of the Virgo Cluster due to its luminous nucleus.

2001年3月24日 · Among spiral galaxies, NGC 4388 is classified as an active galaxy that emits huge amounts of energy from its active galactic nucleus. It was already known that ionized hydrogen gas clouds are being emitted from the core of …

NGC 4388 has a bright energetic nucleus and so is classified as an active galaxy. The spiral, relatively close by at 60 million light years, is a member of the nearest major cluster of galaxies: the Virgo Cluster. One hypothesis holds that the gas was stripped away as NGC 4388 made its way through the intergalactic medium of the Virgo Cluster.

The galaxy NGC 4388 belongs to the Hubble class SA (s)b. The classification is uncertain because the galaxy is seen almost edge-on. Its disk is inclined by 82° with respect to the sky plane. This galaxy has a distance median value of 19.2 Mpc. A bright radio jet emerges from the nucleus, but is not resolved in the images shown below.

NGC 4388 is an active spiral galaxy in the equatorial constellation of Virgo. It was discovered April 17, 1784 by Wilhelm Herschel. This galaxy is located at a distance of 57 million light years and is receding with a radial velocity of 2,524km/s. It is one of the brightest galaxies of the Virgo Cluster due to its luminous nucleus.

NGC 4388 is a Seyfert 2 Galaxy located in the constellation of Virgo in the equatorial region. NGC 4388's distance from Earth is 63,466,769.54 light years. NGC 4388 is called NGC 4388 in the New General Catalogue (NGC).

Two edge-on spiral galaxies, NGC 4388 and its sister galaxy NGC 4402, are located close (∼400 kpc) to the cluster centre (M 87) and close (135 kpc) to each other in projection on the sky. Both galaxies have high radial velocities with respect to the cluster mean velocity ( υ N4388 ∼ 1500 km s −1 , υ N4402 ∼ −900 km s −1 ).

2012年3月14日 · NGC 4388. The supermassive black holes in the hearts of many galaxies form what are known as active galactic nuclei (AGN). The accretion disks around these black holes are especially hot and bright, so they produce copious amounts of energy at many different wavelengths. Some AGN, however, are muffled.

2023年3月16日 · We present a new analysis of the Suzaku X-ray spectrum of the Compton-thin Seyfert 2 galaxy NGC 4388. The spectrum above $\sim$2 keV can be described by a remarkably simple and rather mundane...

NGC 4388 è una galassia a spirale situata nella costellazione della Vergine alla distanza di 57 milioni di anni luce dalla Terra. È una delle galassie più luminose dell'Ammasso della Vergine [1] a causa del suo nucleo attivo che ospita un buco nero supermassiccio.