Our Galaxy has a mass - to - light ratio of between 30 and 100, and
typical galaxy clusters have mass - to - light ratios between 200 and 500.
Not exact matches
A Giant Galactic Ghost Intrigued by faint blurs on old photographic plates of the Virgo
galaxy cluster, a nearby region teeming with
galaxies, Oregon's Bothun and colleagues wondered if the apparitions might be smallish
galaxies with «low surface brightness» — astronomer - speak for emitting less light per unit area than
typical galaxies.
While a
typical galaxy contains billions of stars, a number of tiny
galaxies have been found in recent years that do not fit the classic picture and instead resemble the groups of stars known as star
clusters.
Follow Roger Highfield as he time - travels, wages biological warfare and finds the secret of
galaxy clusters in his soup — all in a
typical Monday
If it contained an amount of dark matter
typical for a
galaxy of its size, the dark matter's gravity would hasten the motions of several star
clusters that surround it.
A
typical cluster does not emit many gamma rays, so all the
galaxies in it must be made solely of matter.
By comparison,
typical clusters of
galaxies can be nearly 10 million light - years across.
Even its globular
clusters are oddballs: they are twice as large as
typical stellar groupings seen in other
galaxies.
It may be a small
cluster of stars that was
typical of the time just after the Big Bang that eventually merged with other
clusters to form the familiar
galaxies of today.