NGC 5419

NGC5419 is a large elliptical galaxy in the constellation of Centaurus. Its velocity with respect to the cosmic microwave background is 4,375 ± 23km/s, which corresponds to a Hubble distance of 64.5 ± 4.5Mpc. It was discovered by British astronomer John Herschel on 1 May 1834.
NGC5419 is the brightest cluster galaxy of the galaxy cluster, AbellS0753. It contains a large core with a radius span of 1.58 arcsec. In addition, it has a double nucleus, indicating the presence of two supermassive black holes in the center with a separation gap of only ≈70 pc.

Supernovae

Two supernovae have been observed in NGC5419:SN 2018zz was discovered by the All Sky Automated Survey for SuperNovae on 3 March 2018.SN 2020alh was discovered by ATLAS on 19 January 2020.

NGC 5488 Group

According to A.M. Garcia, the galaxy NGC5419 is part of the NGC5488 group. This group of galaxies has 14 members: NGC 5397, NGC 5488, IC 4366 and nine galaxies from the ESO catalog.