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The Circinus Galaxy is a spiral galaxy with an active nucleus located in the Circinus constellation of the southern celestial hemisphere, approximately 13 million light years away. Due to its position very close to the plane of the Milky Way Galaxy, it has been largely obscured by foreground dust and stars, and could only be studied in detail toward the end of the 20th century. The galaxy belongs to the Type 2 Seyfert galaxies class and harbors a supermassive black hole at its center. General Ch