nuclear star cluster of Andromeda

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The nuclear star cluster of Andromeda is the dense, compact cluster of stars surrounding the supermassive black hole at the very center of the Andromeda Galaxy.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf nuclear star cluster
stellar system
contains old stars
stars
supermassive black hole of Andromeda
young stars
distanceFromEarth about 2.5 million light-years
about 780 kiloparsecs
hasAlternativeName Andromeda nuclear star cluster NERFINISHED
M31 nuclear star cluster
hasComponent P1
P2
P3 NERFINISHED
central blue cluster
eccentric stellar disk
hasEnvironment strong gravitational potential
strong tidal field
hasHigh stellar density
surface brightness
hasKinematicsCharacterizedBy high velocity dispersion
ordered rotation
hostGalaxy Andromeda Galaxy NERFINISHED
is compact
dense
rotating system
isCentralComponentOf bulge of Andromeda Galaxy
isExampleOf galactic nucleus
nuclear stellar disk
isStudiedIn near-infrared wavelengths
optical wavelengths
locatedIn Andromeda constellation NERFINISHED
Local Group NERFINISHED
center of Andromeda Galaxy
observedBy Hubble Space Telescope NERFINISHED
ground-based telescopes
orbits center of mass with supermassive black hole
partOf Andromeda Galaxy NERFINISHED
spectralStudiesShow evidence for recent star formation
mixture of stellar populations
surrounds supermassive black hole of Andromeda
usedToStudy dynamics near supermassive black holes
formation of nuclear star clusters
stellar populations in galactic centers

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M31* belongsToSystem nuclear star cluster of Andromeda