UGC 6093

UGC 6093 is a barred spiral galaxy located approximately 500 million light years (or about 153 megaparsecs) away from Earth in the constellation of Leo.

UGC 6093
Hubble Space Telescope image of UGC 6093
Observation data (J2000 epoch)
Constellation	Leo
Right ascension	11^h 00^m 47.96^s[1]
Declination	10° 43′ 41.30″[1]
Redshift	0.036118[1]
Helio radial velocity	10,828 km/s[1]
Distance	500 Mly (153 Mpc)
Apparent magnitude (V)	14.7[1]
Characteristics
Type	SAB(rs)bc[1]
Apparent size (V)	0.94′ × 0.76′[1]
Notable features	Acts as a megamaser, hosts an AGN.
Other designations
MCG+02-28-044, PGC 33198[1]

This galaxy is known to host an active galactic nucleus, which is caused by the accretion of matter by a supermassive black hole located at its center, thus causing it to emit huge amounts of radiation and making UGC 6093's core shine excessively. This galaxy is also a megamaser, which means that it acts as a giant astronomical laser generating microwaves rather than visible light.[2]

References

"NED results for object UGC 6093". NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database. Retrieved 20 March 2018.
"Hubble's Barred and Booming Spiral Galaxy". www.nasa.gov. Retrieved 20 March 2018.

Galaxies
Morphology	Disc Lenticular barred unbarred Spiral anemic barred flocculent grand design intermediate Magellanic unbarred Dwarf galaxy elliptical irregular spheroidal spiral Lenticular Elliptical galaxy cD Irregular barred Peculiar Ring Polar
Structure	Active galactic nucleus Bar Bulge Dark matter halo Disc Disc galaxy Halo corona Galactic center Galactic plane Galactic ridge Interstellar medium Protogalaxy Galaxy filament Spiral arm Supermassive black hole Ultramassive
Active nuclei	Blazar LINER Markarian Quasar Gravitationally lensed BL Lac object Radio X-shaped DRAGN Relativistic jet Seyfert
Energetic galaxies	Lyman-alpha emitter Luminous infrared Starburst blue compact dwarf pea faint blue Luminous infrared galaxies Hot dust-obscured
Low activity	Low surface brightness Ultra diffuse Dark galaxy Red nugget Blue Dead disk galaxy Zombie Gravitationally lensed
Interaction	Field Galactic tide Cloud Groups and clusters group cluster Brightest cluster galaxy fossil group Interacting merger Satellite interaction collision cannibalism harassment Future smiting Jellyfish Satellite Stellar stream Superclusters Walls Voids and supervoids void galaxy
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Astronomical catalogs
PGC	PGC 33194 PGC 33195 PGC 33196 PGC 33197 PGC 33198 PGC 33199 PGC 33200 PGC 33201 PGC 33202
UGC	UGC 6089 UGC 6090 UGC 6091 UGC 6092 UGC 6093 UGC 6094 UGC 6095 UGC 6096 UGC 6097

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