Our Milky Way galaxy has one at its center (named Sagittarius A*), and many other ... of light years long and are almost always found in elliptical galaxies. Using very long baseline ...

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You have the spirals like the Milky Way and Andromeda, the irregular galaxies, and the elliptical galaxies. This latter group tends to have the most massive and usually most aged population of stars.

Dwarf galaxy D2 is the group's most massive member with a stellar mass of 275 million solar masses, while D4 is the least massive—with a stellar mass of only 14.7 million solar masses.

Why it's so special: NGC 4694 is a galaxy that cannot be easily classified into one of the two basic galaxy types: spiral and elliptical. Astronomers needed to examine its properties in detail to ...

A study published in Nature details the process that spawned immense galaxies, which could help unravel the evolution of the universe since the beginning of time. Exploring the Origins of Elliptical ...

The larger elliptical galaxy is pulling material from a smaller neighboring galaxy, distorting its spiral arms. In turn, the teased strands of interstellar material fuels new star formation in the ...

Giant galaxies, known as 'elliptical galaxies', look similar to bulging footballs compared with the flat disc of the Milky Way. The question of how they emerged have been at the centre of research ...

Lenticular galaxies have an elliptical shape and ill-defined spiral arms. NGC 4753 sits about 60 million light-years from Earth, and is believed to have merged with a nearby dwarf galaxy about 1.3 ...