Virgo Supercluster [SEP] named after
Virgo Supercluster
The Virgo Supercluster (Virgo SC) or the Local Supercluster (LSC or LS) is a mass concentration of galaxies containing the Virgo Cluster and Local Group, which in turn contains the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies. At least 100 galaxy groups and clusters are located within its diameter of 33 megaparsecs (110 million light-years). The Virgo SC is one of about 10 million superclusters in the observable universe and is in the Pisces–Cetus Supercluster Complex, a galaxy filament.
A 2014 study indicates
10 , our Virgo Supercluster accounts only for 0.1 percent of the total mass of the complex.
The complex was named after the Pisces-Cetus Superclusters, which are its richest superclusters.
See also.
- Entropy
- Fossil galaxy group
- Galaxy group
- Galaxy cluster
- Galactic orientation
- List of galaxy clusters
- Supercluster
- Large-scale structure of the universe
- Timeline of knowledge about galaxies, clusters of galaxies, and large-scale structure
- Intracluster medium