Hubble Space Telescope Captures Incredibly Massive UGC 12591 Galaxy

Hubble Space Telescope Captures Incredibly (अविश्वसनीय रूप से) Massive (विशाल) UGC 12591 Galaxy  (आकाशगंगा) 

The Hubble space telescope has captured an image to showcase an incredible massive galaxy, UGC 12591, that lies just under 400 million light-years away from the Earth. The galaxy and its halo (तेजोवलय) together contain several hundred billion times the mass of the Sun - four times the mass of the Milky Way, NASA said in a statement on Friday.It also whirls round extremely quickly, rotating at speeds of up to 1.8 million kilometers per hour, it added. UGC 12591 sits somewhere between a lenticular and a spiral. 

It lies in the westernmost region of the Pisces-Perseus Supercluster, a long chain of galaxy clusters that stretches out for hundreds of light-years ? one of the largest known structures in the cosmos.

Observations with Hubble are helping astronomers to understand the mass of UGC 12591, and to determine whether the galaxy simply formed and grew (बढ़ी)slowly over time, or whether it might have grown unusually massive by colliding (टकराने) and merging with another large galaxy at some point in its past, NASA said.