Galaxies: Swirling Masses of Stars

Galaxies are home to many celestial bodies such as stars, planets, comets, and even black holes. They maintain organization within our universe, but there's more to them than meets the eye. Explore galaxies, their shapes, and what holds them together.

This is an image of NGC 4414, a galaxy in the Coma Berenices constellation. It is 55,000 lights in diameter and 60 million light years away from Earth.		These are the Antennae Galaxies, NGC 4038 and 4039, found in Corvus. They are two interacting galaxies that are 45 million light years away from us.
	This is NGC 1232, a galaxy within the constellation Eridanus. It is also 60 million light years from Earth and is 200,000 light years wide.
This is the first ever image of a black hole captured by the Event Horizon Telescope. It is the supermassive black hole at the center of a supergiant elliptical galaxy, Messier 87.		This is an image of the Carina Nebula, NGC 3372, located in the Carina-Sagittarius arm of the Milky Way. It is around 8,500 light years from Earth.
	This is an artist's representation of a supermassive black hole.