编辑“︁NGC 1600”︁（章节）

==超大質量黑洞==
NGC 1600中心附近的恆星呈瀰漫性分佈，這種現象是受到星系中心的黑洞所影響而形成。<ref name="a1bhiaggwadc">{{cite journal
| last1      = Thomas
| first1     = Jens 
| last2      = Chung-Pei 
| first2     = Ma
| last3      = McConnell
| first3     = Nicholas J. 
| last4      = Greene
| first4     = Jenny E. 
| last5      = Blakeslee
| first5     = John P.
| last6      = Janish
| first6     = Ryan  
| date       = 2016-04-06
| title      = A 17-billion-solar-mass black hole in a group galaxy with a diffuse core
| url        = http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nature17197.html
| journal    = [[自然 (期刊)|Nature]]
| publisher  = Nature Publishing Group
| doi        = 10.1038/nature17197
| issn       = 0028-0836
| access-date= 2016-04-06 }} </ref>雖然 NGC 1600只是普通尺寸大小的星系，在NGC 1600中心有一個異常巨大的[[超大質量黑洞]]，其質量為170億個太陽質量。({{Solar mass|link=y}}).<ref name="a1bhiaggwadc" />在估算黑洞尺寸大小期間，人們發現其所處區域的星系數量很稀少。之前，通常只有在大型高密度星系團內部才會出現超大質量黑洞，而NGC 1600所處的只是一個中等星系團。這發現可能意味著，超大質量黑洞可能存在於先前被忽略的星系團內部，黑洞生長模型可能不正確或不完全。<ref name=CSMonitor-2016-04-06>{{cite news |url= http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2016/0406/Humongous-black-hole-catches-astronomers-totally-off-guard |title= Humongous black hole catches astronomers totally off guard |publisher= Christian Science Monitor |author= Sarah Lewin |work= SPACE.com |date= 6 April 2016 |accessdate= 2016-04-09 |archive-date= 2016-04-08 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20160408033219/http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2016/0406/Humongous-black-hole-catches-astronomers-totally-off-guard |dead-url= no }}</ref>

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NGC 1600.jpg|距地球2億光年之外的橢圓星系NGC 1600。<ref name=Hubble>{{cite web |title= Behemoth black hole found in an unlikely place |url= http://www.spacetelescope.org/news/heic1607/ |accessdate= 7 April 2016 |date= 6 April 2017 |publisher= Hubble Space Telescope |id= heic1607 |author= Jens Thomas; Mathias Jäger; |archive-date= 2016-04-09 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20160409154853/http://www.spacetelescope.org/news/heic1607/ |dead-url= no }}</ref>
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