UGC 12591 - This giant hybrid galaxy is located 400 million light-years from Earth and is one of the largest known galaxies in the universe.
For more context, see 15,000 galaxies in the Hubble telescope image.
Galaxy hybrid UGC 12591.
UGC 12591 is a hybrid galaxy, combining the characteristics of both pea-shaped galaxies and spiral galaxies. This galaxy is four times bigger than the Milky Way galaxy. The spiral of this galaxy rotates at a very fast speed, exceeding 1 million miles per hour.
Located about 400 million light-years from Earth, UGC 12591 is part of the Perseus-Pisces galaxy cluster , one of the largest structures known to man in the universe - hundreds of millions of light-years across.
Cosmologists are studying UGC 12591 to determine how it is made and developed. The researchers wanted to know if it was self-developed or the result of a giant collision between galaxies.
