NGC 2276 is anintermediate spiral galaxy in the constellationCepheus. The galaxy lies 120 million light-years away from Earth. NGC 2276 has an asymmetrical appearance, most likely caused by gravitational interactions with its neighbor,elliptical galaxyNGC 2300. NGC 2276 is traveling with an orbital velocity of about 968 km/s relative to the NGC 2300 group of galaxies. Trailing NGC 2276 is a long tail ofinterstellar medium about 300,000 light-years (100,000 pc) long, formed byram pressure stripping.[2]
One of the many starburst spiral arms contains an intermediate massblack hole with 50,000 times the mass of theSun, named NGC 2276-3c. NGC 2276-3c has produced two jets: a large-scale radio jet, approximately 2,000 light years long, and an "inner jet" about 6 light years long. The galaxy shows an enhanced rate of star formation that may have been triggered by a collision with a dwarf galaxy,[3][4] or by the gravitational interaction with its neighbor compressing gas and dust.
NGC 2276 was discovered byFriedrich August Theodor Winnecke on 26 June 1876.[5] In theAtlas of Peculiar Galaxies, the galaxy is mentioned twice, once as Arp 25, in the category spiral galaxies with one heavy arm, and with NGC 2300 as Arp 114, in the category elliptical galaxies close to and perturbing spiral galaxies.
^Roberts, I. D.; Van Weeren, R. J.; De Gasperin, F.; Botteon, A.; Edler, H. W.; Ignesti, A.; Matijević, L.; Tomičić, N. (2024). "A 100 kpc ram pressure tail trailing the group galaxy NGC 2276".Astronomy & Astrophysics.689: A22.arXiv:2406.09221.Bibcode:2024A&A...689A..22R.doi:10.1051/0004-6361/202450672.