Virgo cluster
Americannoun
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"Our modeling showed that the tidal forces acting between these galaxies, alongside their proximity to the massive Virgo cluster of galaxies, played a crucial role in the gas dynamics we observed," Professor Staveley-Smith said.
From Science Daily • Oct. 19, 2025
The Sombrero lies at the southern edge of the rich Virgo cluster of galaxies and is one of the most massive objects in that group, equivalent to 800 billion suns.
From Salon • Apr. 23, 2022
Outside the Milky Way, -he thinks 40-meter-class telescopes connected by QHDs will resolve stars in galaxies out to the Virgo cluster and also measure the proper motions of these galaxies.
From Scientific American • Apr. 19, 2021
The EHT has two primary targets: Sagittarius A*, at the centre of the Milky Way, and a supermassive black hole called M87 in the Virgo cluster of galaxies.
From The Guardian • Jan. 11, 2019
There is some hint that the Virgo cluster contains tens of thousands of galaxies.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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