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Supergiant elliptical galaxies are some of the largest galaxies known. The Condor Galaxy is a colossal spiral galaxy disturbed by the smaller IC 4970 . It is the largest known spiral galaxy with the isophotal diameter of over 717,000 light-years (220 kiloparsecs ).
It possesses a diffuse core which is the largest core of any galaxy known to date, [5] and contains a supermassive black hole, one of the largest discovered. [5] IC 1101 is located at 354.0 megaparsecs (1.15 billion light-years) from Earth. It was discovered on 19 June 1790, by the German-British astronomer William Herschel. [6]
List of the largest voids Void name/designation Maximum dimension (in light-years) Notes LOWZ North 13788 void: 2,953,000,000: One of largest known voids, containing 109,066 known galaxies. [29] Local Hole: 2,000,000,000: Proposed void containing the Milky Way galaxy and Local Group as an explanation for the discrepancy in the Hubble constant ...
Largest known galaxy ESO 383-76: Centaurus: 540.89 kiloparsecs (1,764,000 light-years) 90% total B-light: Central galaxy of Abell 3571 [citation needed] Largest spiral galaxy NGC 6872: Pavo: 220 kiloparsecs (718,000 light-years) D 25.5 isophote: Interacting galaxy, stripped by IC 4970. [citation needed] Largest irregular galaxy UGC 6697: Leo
Below are lists of the largest stars currently known, ordered by radius and separated into categories by galaxy. The unit of measurement used is the radius of the Sun (approximately 695,700 km ; 432,300 mi ).
Astronomers have spied a monster radio jet in the distant universe that’s twice the width of the Milky Way galaxy. The ancient object formed when the universe was less than 10% of its current ...
NGC 6872, also known as the Condor Galaxy, [3] is a large barred spiral galaxy of type SB(s)b pec in the constellation Pavo. It is 212 million light-years (65 Mpc ) from Earth. [ 3 ] NGC 6872 is interacting with the lenticular galaxy IC 4970 , which is less than one twelfth as large.
Up until the discovery of JADES-GS-z13-0 in 2022 by the James Webb Space Telescope, GN-z11 was the oldest and most distant known galaxy yet identified in the observable universe, [7] having a spectroscopic redshift of z = 10.957, which corresponds to a proper distance of approximately 32 billion light-years (9.8 billion parsecs).