Astronomers have found one of the largest-ever black holes in giant galaxy NGC 4889, some 300 million light years away. The Hubble space telescope has captured an incredible image of elliptical ...

Neptune's elliptical, oval-shaped orbit keeps the planet an average distance from the sun of almost 2.8 billion miles (4.5 billion kilometers), or roughly 30 times as far away as Earth, making it ...

The placid appearance of NGC 4889 can fool the unsuspecting observer. But the elliptical galaxy, seen in a new image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, harbors a dark secret. At its heart ...

Located about 300 million light-years away in the Coma Cluster, the giant elliptical galaxy NGC 4889, ... This is about 15 times the diameter of Neptune’s orbit from the Sun.

Elliptical galaxy—A galaxy that appears round or elliptical and lacks a disk with spiral arms. ... Kuiper Belt—A donut-shaped region of comets in orbit beyond Neptune, ...

His study looks at how many red dwarfs are in elliptical-shaped galaxies. ... It is more comparable to Neptune and circles a star about 42 light-years from Earth.

The newfound supermassive black hole embedded in the elliptical galaxy NGC 4889, as shown in a new video, is one of the biggest ever discovered at 21 billion times the mass of the sun.Its strong ...

This is not an internal reflection — it’s a 10th-magnitude elliptical galaxy some 8,000 light-years away (far beyond Mirach, ... Neptune will require a telescope to spot, ...

But if Neptune, or any other body (we still don't know most of what's out there in the outer Solar System) gives you extra kinetic energy, it could change your orbit from a bound, elliptical orbit ...