NGC 3259

NGC 3259 is a barred spiral galaxy located approximately 90 million light-years from Earth, in the Ursa Major constellation. It has the Galaxy [morphological classification|morphological classification] SABbc, which indicates that it is a spiral galaxy with a weak bar across the nucleus, an incomplete inner ring structure circling the bar, and moderate to loosely wound spiral arms. This galaxy is a known source of X-ray emission and it has an active galactic nucleus of the Seyfert 2 type.
NGC 3259 has a central black hole with a mass between 17,000 and 41,000 times that of the Sun, which is low for a supermassive black hole; this makes it a lesser-mass supermassive black hole.