SpazeSpiral galaxy, M104
Sombrero Galaxy
A huge glowing bulge ringed by a dark lane of dust, seen almost edge-on: it looks like a wide-brimmed hat.
- Distance
- 31 million light years
- Width
- 50,000 light years
- Central black hole
- ~1 billion Suns
Made of
- Dark matter 90%
- Stars 9%
- Gas and dust 1%
Hundreds of billions of stars in a halo of dark matter
Modelled from rotation curves and star counts