Astronomers have found one of the largest-ever black holes in giant galaxy NGC 4889, some 300 million light years away. The Hubble space telescope has captured an incredible image of elliptical ...

Located about 300 million light-years away in the Coma Cluster, the giant elliptical galaxy NGC 4889, ... This is about 15 times the diameter of Neptune’s orbit from the Sun.

What happens when you build the largest digital camera on Earth, capable of capturing 3.2 gigapixel images, and aim it at the depths of space from a remote Chilean mountaintop? You get results like ...

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.

Elliptical galaxy—A galaxy that appears round or elliptical and lacks a disk with spiral arms. ... Kuiper Belt—A donut-shaped region of comets in orbit beyond Neptune, ...

It took just a few minutes for the telescope to image Neptune close up, and another 20 to take a wider view, revealing not just the planet but myriad galaxies behind it stretching into the cosmos.

Galaxy Arp 184, however, we are seeing from an angle, so it looks different. More than that, though, Arp 184 is skewed so that it isn’t perfectly spiral shaped.

Astronomers have created a 3D map of the massive elliptical galaxy Messier 87 and gotten a better estimate of the mass of its central supermassive black hole. Skip to main content.

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 ...

The unusual galaxy NGC 4694 has traits unique to the two main galaxy types, spiral and elliptical. (Image credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, D. Thilker) What it is: The galaxy NGC 4694, a member of the ...