As M88 heads towards M87 through the intracluster medium, it is being stripped of star-forming gas.
A stunning spiral galaxy called Messier 88 is racing through the crowded Virgo Cluster on a journey that will dramatically reshape its future. At its heart lies a supermassive black hole about 100 ...
M88 is part of the Virgo Cluster, a giant group containing more than a thousand galaxies. All of these galaxies are moving within the cluster due to gravity. Over the next few hundred million years, ...
Looking somewhat like a swarm of bees returning to their hive, this NASA Hubble Space Telescope image features the galaxy cluster MACS0329-0211. Galaxy clusters like MACS0329-0211 are important ...
Look closely at this image from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and you'll see galaxies of various shapes and sizes clustered together toward the center-left of the image. A few foreground stars shine ...