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3C 272.1 (NGC 4374, M 84); z=0.003536

A large well-studied elliptical in the Virgo cluster with a prominent dust lane visible in the optical, and faintly detectable in the NICMOS image [Bower et al.2000]. The radio source is a double-sided FR I jet and core. However, its radio power is somewhat lower than the fiducial cutoff for radio-loud quasars. It is described as a ``weak radio galaxy'' by [Laing and Bridle1987].



David James Elford Floyd
2007-07-28