page_title: NGC 2787
hierarchical_section_title: NGC 2787
caption_attribution_description: English: Galaxy NGC 2787: Tightly wound, almost concentric, arms of dark dust encircle the bright nucleus of the otherwise nondescript galaxy, NGC 2787, in this image created by the Hubble Heritage team. Astronomer Marcella Carollo (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich) and collaborators used Hubble's Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 to collect the data in January 1999.
context_page_description: NGC 2787 is a barred lenticular galaxy approximately 24 million light-years away in the constellation Ursa Major. In 1999, the Hubble Space Telescope took a look at NGC 2787. The supermassive black hole at the core has a mass of 4.1+0.4
  −0.5×10⁷ M☉.
context_section_description: NGC 2787 is a barred lenticular galaxy approximately 24 million light-years away in the constellation Ursa Major.  In 1999, the Hubble Space Telescope took a look at NGC 2787. The supermassive black hole at the core has a mass of 4.1+0.4
  −0.5×10⁷ M☉.
caption: NGC 2787 as observed by the Hubble Space Telescope (HST).
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