(a) Host galaxy of SN 2020bvc, UGC 9379, as imaged by the Pan-STARRS PS1 telescope. The image was created using the g′, i′, and z′ images as single channels of an RGB image. The cyan cross gives the position of SN 2020bvc, offset 18″ from the nucleus of its host galaxy. (b, c) CXO (upper panel) and Swift-XRT (lower panel) count map image superimposed on the contours of the PS1 i-band archival image of UGC 9379. The CXO image has better spatial resolution, showing the proximity of SN 2020bvc to the H II region. (d) Spectrum of SN 2020bvc obtained with the AFOSC spectrograph at the Cima Ekar observatory in Asiago, Italy (black curve), on February 28, 2020, i.e., 24 days after the discovery of the SN, and compared with the spectra of three GRB SNe (arbitrarily offset) at similar epochs: SN 1998bw (blue: day 28, Galama et al. 1998), SN 2003dh (red: 28 days, Hjorth et al. 2003) and SN 2006aj (green: day 19, Sollerman et al. 2006).