The Centaurus Cluster is a cluster of hundreds of galaxies, located approximately 170 million light years away in the Centaurus constellation. The brightest member galaxy is the elliptical galaxy NGC 4696.
Number of galaxies: ~100
Distance (co-moving): 52.4 Mpc (170.9 Mly) h−1; 0.705
X-ray flux: 15.7×10−11 erg s−1 cm−2 (0.5—2 keV)
Constellation: Centaurus
Redshift: 0.01140 (3 418 km/s)