Galaxy : Introduction: A galaxy is a collection of stars, stellar remnants, interstellar gas, dust, and dark matter that is gravitationally bound. The name comes from the Greek word galaxias, which means "milky" and refers to the Milky Way galaxy, which houses the Solar System. Galaxies range in size from dwarfs with fewer than one hundred million (108) stars to the largest galaxies known as supergiants with one hundred trillion (1014) stars, each orbiting its galaxy's centre of mass. Galaxies are thought to contain an average of 100 million stars. Galaxy According on their optical shape, galaxies are classified as elliptical,[5] spiral, or irregular. It's believed that the centres of several of them contain supermassive black holes. Sagittarius A*, the name of the Milky Way's primary black hole, is four million times more massive than the Sun. GN-z11 is the oldest and furthest away galaxy as of March 2016. It can be seen as having existed only 400 million yea...
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