UGC 5460 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation of Ursa Major. Its velocity with respect to the cosmic microwave background for is 1,276±14 km/s, which corresponds to a Hubble distance of 61.4 ± 4.4 Mly (18.82 ± 1.34 Mpc).^[1] In addition, two non redshift measurements give a distance of 58.1 ± 6.8 Mly (17.8 ± 2.1 Mpc).^[2] The first known reference to this galaxy comes from Part 1 of the Morphological Catalogue of Galaxies, where it is listed as MCG +09-17-028.

The SIMBAD database lists UGC 5460 as an active galaxy nucleus candidate, i.e. it has a compact region at the center that emits a significant amount of energy across the electromagnetic spectrum, with characteristics indicating that this luminosity is not produced by the stars.^[3]

UGC 5460 is a member of the NGC 3079 Group (also known as LGG 188), which contains six galaxies. The other five galaxies in the group are: NGC 3073, NGC 3079, UGC 5421, UGC 5459, and UGC 5479.^[4]

Two supernovae have been observed in UGC 5460:

• SN 2011ht (Type IIn, mag. 17) was discovered by Tom Boles on 29 September 2011.^[5][6] This supernova was initially suspected of being a luminous blue variable.^[5] Later analysis suggested that it belongs to an unusual group of SNe IIn, including SN 1994W and SN 2009kn, and perhaps SN 2005cl, that warrants a new designation of Type IIn-P.^[7]
• SN  2015as ( ประเภท IIb , ความสว่าง 16) ถูกค้นพบโดย Ken'ichi Nishimura เมื่อวันที่ 15 พฤศจิกายน 2015 ^{[ 8 ] [ 9 ]}แม้ว่าในตอนแรกจะถูกจัดประเภทเป็นประเภท II [ ^{10 ] แต่}การวิเคราะห์ในภายหลังสรุปว่าเป็นประเภท IIb ^{[ 11 ]}