pushing another yap from neospring onto here... because why not.!! i might use my last for the yap of the day tomorrow.. scratches chin

the sombrero galaxy (also known as messier object 104) is the closest galaxy to our own, the milky way. it is like so cool because it looks like a sombrero due to the color and peculiar shape. it is home to hundreds of thousands of stars. it is a member of the virgo ii groups (a series of galaxies and galaxy clusters around the southern edge of the virgo supercluster)

in the center of the sombrero galaxy is a supermassive blackhole, which has 1 billion times the mass of the sun. scientists figured this out because of them calculating that due to the speed and revolution of the stars could not be maintained without a blackhole of such mass. the mass of the black hole(?) is predicted to be 800 billion solar masses

it has the largest absolute magnitude out of all of the blackholes seen close by to our solar system, being the only one to be on a collision course with the milky way galaxy (in 4.5 billion years)

it has a apparent magnitude of +8.0 so its actually very easy to spot. the dust ring is its most defining feature and is what made the scientists name it what it is. most of the cold atomic hydrogen gas and the dust are inside of the ring. its the primary site of all of the star formations in that galaxy

i haven't actually researched too much on this one! this is all basic ish information.