Virgo Cluster

The Virgo Cluster is a cluster of galaxies whose center is 53.8 ± 0.3 Mly (16.5 ± 0.1 Mpc) away in the constellation Virgo. Comprising approximately 1300 (and possibly up to 2000) member galaxies, the cluster forms the heart of the larger Virgo Supercluster, of which the Local Group is an outlying member. It is estimated that its mass is 1.2×1015 M☉ out to 8 degrees of the cluster's center or a radius of about 2.2 Mpc.

Many of the brighter galaxies in this cluster, including the giant elliptical galaxy Messier 87, were discovered in the late 1770s and early 1780s and subsequently included in Charles Messier's catalogue of non-cometary fuzzy objects. Described by Messier as nebulae without stars, their true nature was not recognized until the 1920s.

The cluster subtends a maximum arc of approximately 8 degrees centered in the constellation Virgo. Many of the member galaxies of the cluster are visible with a small telescope. Its brightest member is the elliptical galaxy Messier 49; however its most famous member is the also elliptical galaxy Messier 87, that is located in the center of the cluster. This is the most famous cluster of galaxies. It is much larger than any other group within 100 million light years. There are about 150 large galaxies in this cluster and at least a thousand known dwarf galaxies. This cluster completely dominates our tiny corner of the Universe, and even our Local Group of galaxies is being gravitationally pulled by this cluster. At the core of the Virgo cluster lie the three large elliptical galaxies M84, M86 and M87. These galaxies probably formed from the merger of many smaller galaxies and are much more massive than our own galaxy.

In 5045 an event [1] revealed that all galaxies of the Virgo Cluster (perhaps even all Galaxies of the Virgo Super Cluster) are connected with each other via a net of "Ancient Gates". This event [1] activated all gates and thus forming a Network of Gates. The gates are big enough for ships up to Devastator size. ( The USS Dominator is too big)

[1] Erica Olafson and the Crew of the Tigershark caused the Activation of the Gate Network. There are six (known) such gates in the M-0 Galaxy and 4 (known) Gates in the Andromeda Galaxy