UGC 11397

UGC11397 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation of Lyra. Its velocity with respect to the cosmic microwave background is, which corresponds to a Hubble distance of. However, three non-redshift measurements give a farther distance of. The first known reference to this galaxy comes from volume III of the Catalogue of Galaxies and of Clusters of Galaxies compiled by Fritz Zwicky in 1966, where it was listed as CGCG202-003.
UGC11397 is a Seyfert II Galaxy, i.e. it has a quasar-like nucleus with very high surface brightnesses whose spectra reveal strong, high-ionisation emission lines, but unlike quasars, the host galaxy is clearly detectable.
The center of UGC11397 harbors a supermassive black hole, with a mass of 174 million [Solar mass|].