IGR J12580+0134

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IGR J12580+0134 is the central supermassive black hole within the galaxy NGC 4845. Located nearly 68.7 million light-years away in the constellation Virgo, it is estimated to be about 300,000 times the mass of the Sun. In 2013, the INTEGRAL satellite detected an X-ray flare corresponding to the black hole absorbing matter from a low-mass object, presumed to be a brown dwarf or superjovian planet. This makes it the first known exoplanet to orbit a black hole

The planet approaching periastron around the central supermassive black hole of NGC 4845

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