NGC 4911 is a spiral galaxy belonging to the Coma Cluster, a rich cluster of galaxies located in the constellation Coma Berenices, 320 million light-years away. It is the second brightest spiral galaxy of this cluster after NGC 4921 and is located not far from the center of it.
NGC 4911 has been observed in detail by the Hubble Space Telescope; these observations show bands of dust and regions of star formation, as well as globular clusters and rings of stars around them that are interpreted as the effect of the attraction of their neighboring galaxies to fall towards the center of the cluster, a process that eventually it can turn it into an anemic galaxy - by losing its gas due to interaction with the hot gas that fills Coma's intergalactic medium and even later in a lenticular or elliptical galaxy - by losing stars due to gravitational interactions with other Coma- .
Like NGC 4921, NGC 4911 is deficient in neutral hydrogen, which does not match the position of the visible galaxy in the optic, and shows distortions to the southwest that have been attributed to the interaction with a neighboring galaxy. / p>
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