The galaxies of the universe number in the hundreds of billions within
the observable universe a select few of these Galaxies have unique traits
that make them horrifying number 10. the Galaxy with missing matter
the Eerie nearly transparent galaxy known as NGC 1052 df2 sits 62 million light years from Earth
astronomers have known for quite a while that dark matter plays a major role in the formation and
structure of galaxies the this galaxy is unique because it almost entirely lacks dark matter
which astronomers believe led to its current Ultra diffuse structure and dark matter may be
a key ingredient to keeping the Stellar bodies that make up galaxies in a tight uniform pattern
and without it galaxies form more of a spread out blob that is so scattered that astronomers can see
straight through it number nine the Galaxy's brightest vacuum cleaner the monster galaxy
w2246-0526 has a massive Quasar at its core making this the brightest Galaxy astronomers have
ever found it is also feasting upon three of its small neighbors likely adding to its luminosity
while sucking up material from its neighbors this galaxy is putting out nearly 350 trillion times
the Luminosity of the Sun new observations are revealing that the trails of dust being extracted
from the smaller galaxies contain roughly the same amount of matter as the galaxies themselves
seems unlikely these galaxies will be able to escape their fate and there will eventually
be only one Galaxy in that small corner of the universe number eight the zombie Galaxy
using the Hubble Space Telescope astronomers were shocked when they looked towards the
Galaxy max2129-1 around 10 billion light years from Earth this galaxy is one of the super early
galaxies that formed soon after the big bang and the researchers were expecting to find a chaotic
star ball formed through multiple galaxies merging together but instead they found the
first direct evidence that some of the earliest galaxies are now dead galaxies floating through
the cosmos a dead Galaxy is one in which no more stars are forming and may burn out with
the last of their current Stars one of the more shocking aspects of this discovery is
that elliptical galaxies are thought to contain the oldest Stars while spiral galaxies contain
young stars but this ancient Galaxy turned out to be a spiral with this discovery astronomers
will have to look back on their understanding of how galaxies form and evolve over time
number seven a Galaxy blooming in space 270 million light years away from Earth
lies ESO 381-12 inside of the constellation of Centaurus in the southern sky this galaxy
has a mysterious shell blooming around it that astronomers are still struggling to figure out
one of the leading theories states that one of the nearby galaxies might have interacted with
it in the not so distant past interactions with other galaxies could have caused shock waves to
be sent out through its structure Rippling out like waves in a pond this would be a violent and
tumultuous time in this galaxy and may lead to the formation of many hot stars that will fill
this Galaxy with new growth it's still amazing to be able to see this Hubble's Advanced Camera
for surveys recently completed a study that showed shell galaxies may be created by mergers such as
this only once every billion years number six the galaxies that are ever watching how would
it feel to look out into the cosmos and have the cosmos stare back the astronomer who first scanned
the sky and happened across the Galaxy's ic2163 and NGC 2207 got to experience this firsthand
this pair of spiral galaxies sitting within the constellation Canis Major are passing by
each other like ships in the night while they appear to be barreling towards each other the
Galaxy ic2163 on the right is trapped within the gravitational pull of its larger neighbor
around 40 million years ago these galaxies came the closest to colliding with each
other before the smaller of the two passed eventually it will be pulled back and swing
around NGC 2207 again in another few million years trapped in a massive Galactic orbit
are they destined to One Day Collide and will their new form still gaze towards the Earth
number five the dead Galaxy flying through space with a massive black hole
the Galaxy NGC 1277 is a dead Galaxy currently blasting through a local Galactic cluster carrying
a supermassive black hole its black hole is equivalent to 17 billion Suns and makes up
a whopping 14 of the Galaxy's Mass each black hole in an average Galaxy only makes up roughly
one tenth of one percent of the total mass making this galaxy extremely unbalanced in terms of mass
much of this discrepancy could be due to the star formation stopping and the black hole sucking
up much of the Galaxy's leftover matter making it grow to its incredible size number four the
Tinkerbell triplet what do you think happens when more than two galaxies merge into one
astronomers got a glimpse into a situation like that with the galaxy known commonly as the bird
eso593-ig008 650 million light years away inside of the constellation Sagittarius
three separate galaxies two Spirals and an irregular dwarf Galaxy began their merging
long ago to the extreme gravitational forces among the three the structure of the new galaxy has been
changing and settling over time it is currently over one hundred thousand light years long from
one tip to the other we can see bright spots in the head of the figure where an incredible
amount of Stellar formation is occurring filling the new Galaxy with thousands of stars what will
become of this Galactic triplet in the coming eons number three an unlikely spiral galaxy with
an intriguing spiral galaxy known as j1649 plus 2635 lies nearly 800 million light years from
Earth this galaxy has astronomers scratching their heads when they realized what it was
doing releasing massive Jets of energy coming out of its Center shooting into space for light years
the problem is that spiral galaxies are not supposed to emit jets that are this large
the team of astronomers who discover this galaxy believe that the Jets are propelled by the insane
amount of gravitational energy being generated by the supermassive black hole at the Galaxy's core
as material is pulled in toward the black hole it forms an accretion disk around the Event Horizon
and then accelerates out along the disc's poles scientists do believe that this type of phenomenon
eventually leads to the destruction of any spiral structure which has made this find all the more
puzzling number two the yeti Galaxy hiding behind a cloak of cosmic dust located a staggering 12
and a half billion light years away from the earth leaves the Galaxy commonly called The
Cosmic Yeti due to the elusiveness of its kind this galaxy is one of the earliest structures
formed after the big bang and astronomers have been searching for a find like this for years
astronomers have observed that galaxies from the early Universe typically reach maturity
extremely quickly leading them to theorize that there were precursor galaxies of monstrous sizes
the cosmic Yeti is also churning out stars at rates nearly 100 times the rate of star
formation of the Milky Way give scientists Clues into what was going on in the very early universe
this galaxy is high on the list of objects James Webb is going to be turning its eye
to and studying so it may only be a matter of time until more secrets are unlocked from this
rare Galaxy number one the bizarre Starburst Galaxy Centaurus a surprisingly bizarre result
of a galactic Collision the Galaxy NGC 5128 also known as Centaurus a is both an elliptical galaxy
and a spiral galaxy within the constellation of Centaurus 10 to 16 million light years from Earth
according to computer models astronomers believe that Centaurus a was once a large elliptical
galaxy that collided with a spiral galaxy and is currently in the process of merging together
the energy from the Collision may have been responsible for kick-starting massive amounts
of star formation with the Galaxy giving it its Starburst status collisions between elliptical
galaxies and spiral galaxies are exceedingly rare and there is still a lot that astronomers
don't understand about this process after the merging of the two galaxies are complete what
will be left will it form back into an elliptical galaxy or will it form into something new thanks
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