Virgo cluster

noun

Astronomy.

1. a cluster of about 2500 galaxies in the constellation Virgo, the nearest cluster to our galaxy.

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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.

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He added that as the galaxies orbited one another and moved toward the superheated gas cloud surrounding the Virgo cluster, which reaches temperatures about 200 times hotter than the Sun's surface, they experienced "ram pressure."

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A team of international researchers studied galaxy NGC 4383, in the nearby Virgo cluster, revealing a gas outflow so large that it would take 20,000 years for light to travel from one side to the other.

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Although statistically inconclusive, the results do show tentative hints of some hotspots, such as one toward the Virgo Cluster, a large group of galaxies about 50 million light-years from Earth.

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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.

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