Monster Galaxies Lose Their Appetite With Age 03

This is a list of galaxies with richest known

globular cluster A globular cluster is a spheroidal conglomeration of stars. Globular clusters are bound together by gravity, with a higher concentration of stars towards their centers. They can contain anywhere from tens of thousands to many millions of membe ...

systems. As of 2019, the galaxy

NGC 6166 NGC 6166 is an elliptical galaxy in the Abell 2199 cluster. It lies 490 million light years away in the constellation Hercules constellation, Hercules. The primary galaxy in the cluster, it is one of the most luminous galaxies known in terms of ...

has the richest globular cluster system, with 39 000 globular clusters. Other galaxies with rich globular cluster systems are NGC 4874,

NGC 4889 NGC 4889 (also known as Caldwell 35) is an E4 supergiant elliptical galaxy. It was discovered in 1785 by the British astronomer William Herschel, Frederick William Herschel I, who catalogued it as a bright, nebulous patch. The brightest galaxy wi ...

, NGC 3311 and

Messier 87 Messier 87 (also known as Virgo A or NGC 4486, generally abbreviated to M87) is a supergiant elliptical galaxy with several trillion stars in the constellation Virgo. One of the largest and most massive galaxies in the local uni ...

. For comparison, the

Milky Way The Milky Way is the galaxy that includes our Solar System, with the name describing the galaxy's appearance from Earth: a hazy band of light seen in the night sky formed from stars that cannot be individually distinguished by the naked eye ...

has a poor globular cluster system, with only 150-180 globular clusters.

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