It has a smooth-looking, armless shape, like an elliptical galaxy, and a disk with a low star-formation rate. However, it has relatively younger and newer stars forming in its central region.

Within the constellation Virgo numerous galaxies that comprise the Virgo Cluster, including the potato-shaped elliptical M87, whose supermassive black hole was imaged in 2019. Up Next Previous ...

When NASA's Hubble Space Telescope snapped a picture of an elliptical galaxy, it caught something else in the frame: A bright, red arc of light wrapped around it.. That glowing curve isn't the ...

Scientists have spotted a defiant galaxy. Located nearly 1 billion light-years from Earth, the galaxy 2MASX J23453268−0449256 is a spiral, like our home the Milky Way.Yet it does something ...

A new telescope image showcases two entangled galaxies that will eventually merge into one millions of years from now -- and previews the eventual, similar fate of our own Milky ...

The Milky Way sits within a galaxy cluster on the Supergalactic Plane — a billion light-year-wide sheet, or "supercluster," upon which large galaxy clusters are pinned. But other spiral galaxies ...

There are also elliptical galaxies, which are large and spherical rather than flat, similar to a rugby ball. The latter don’t produce new stars but are dominated by stars formed more than 10 ...

It has a smooth-looking, armless shape, like an elliptical galaxy, and a disk with a low star-formation rate. However, it has relatively younger and newer stars forming in its central region.