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- Messier 87 (also known as Virgo A or NGC 4486, generally abbreviated to M87) is a supergiant elliptical galaxy in the constellation Virgo that contains several trillion stars.
- NGC 7052 is an elliptical galaxy in Vulpecula at a distance of 214 million light-years from Earth.
- Every massive elliptical galaxy contains a supermassive black hole at its center.
- The post-merger elliptical galaxy has a very low gas content, and so H II regions can no longer form.
- 3C 273 lies at the center of a giant elliptical galaxy with an apparent magnitude of 16 and an apparent size of 30 arcseconds.
- The second stage is marked by the black hole stabilizing by suppressing gas cooling, thus leaving the elliptical galaxy in a stable state.
- One of the closer active galaxies to Earth at a distance of 62 million light-years, Fornax A appears in the optical spectrum as a large elliptical galaxy with dust lanes near its core.
- In the visible spectrum, it appears as an elliptical galaxy in a small cluster.
- It has a central core made of older stars that resembles an elliptical galaxy, and an outer ring of young stars that orbits around the core.
- Some galaxies are much richer in globulars than the Milky Way: The giant elliptical galaxy M87 contains over a thousand.
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