Greedy Galaxies
This is a famous supergiant galaxy called Messier 87. Astronomers looked at 300 planetary nebulae inside this galaxy and found that it has a dark secret. It has swallowed an entire spiral galaxy at some point over the last billion years!
Credit:
Chris Mihos (Case Western Reserve University)/ESO
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