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A galaxy is a gravitationally bound system of stars, stellar remnants, interstellar gas, dust, and dark matter. The word galaxy is derived from the Greek galaxias (γαλαξίας), literally "milky", a reference to the Milky Way. Galaxies range in size from dwarfs with just a few hundred million (108) stars to giants with one hundred trillion (1014) stars, each orbiting its galaxy's center of mass. Galaxies are categorized according to their visual morphology as elliptical, spiral, or irregular. Many galaxies are thought to have supermassive black holes at their centers. The Milky Way's central black hole, known as Sagittarius A*, has a mass four million times greater than the Sun. As of March 2016, GN-z11 is the oldest and most distant observed galaxy with a comoving distance of 32 billion light-years from Earth, and observed as it existed just 400 million years after the Big Bang. Recent estimates of the number of galaxies in the observable universe range from 200 billion (2×1011) to 2 trillion (2×1012) or more, containing more stars than all the grains of sand on planet Earth. Most of the galaxies are 1,000 to 100,000 parsecs in diameter (approximately 3000 to 300,000 light years) and separated by distances on the order of millions of parsecs (or megaparsecs). For comparison, the Milky Way has a diameter of at least 30,000 parsecs (100,000 LY) and is separated from the Andromeda Galaxy, its nearest large neighbor, by 780,000 parsecs (2.5 million LY). The space between galaxies is filled with a tenuous gas (the intergalactic medium) having an average density of less than one atom per cubic meter. The majority of galaxies are gravitationally organized into groups, clusters, and superclusters. The Milky Way is part of the Local Group, which is dominated by it and the Andromeda Galaxy and is part of the Virgo Supercluster. At the largest scale, these associations are generally arranged into sheets and filaments surrounded by immense voids. The largest structure of galaxies yet recognised is a cluster of superclusters that has been named Laniakea, which contains the Virgo supercluster.
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Song | Album | Duration |
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Dancing Tight [Instrumental] [Instrumental] | Ain't Nothing But a Party: The 12" Anthology | 5:23 |
Forget you | Unknown Album | 3:27 |
Gemini | Unknown Album | |
Get to know me | Unknown Album | 2:54 |
Healing | Unknown Album | 2:18 |
I Can Prove It [Instrumental] [Instrumental] | Ain't Nothing But a Party: The 12" Anthology | 4:52 |
Locked Out | Unknown Album | 3:08 |
Madness | Unknown Album | 3:04 |
Miss My Dawgs | Unknown Album | 2:48 |
Move Forward | Unknown Album | 3:54 |
No Dubs | Unknown Album | 3:19 |
Numbers | Unknown Album | 3:19 |
Open Your Heart | Angel 1998 | 4:11 |
Outta Luck | Unknown Album | 3:38 |
Penny for a Poor Man | Unknown Album | 4:01 |
Reality | Unknown Album | 3:37 |
Soul ties (Remix) | Unknown Album | 2:50 |
privacy. | Unknown Album | 3:08 |
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