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Super galaxy, also written as super-galaxy or supergalaxy, is an astronomical term used either to describe giant galaxies, formed from multiple galaxies, or to describe superclusters of galaxies.

Description
The term has a long history, first being used in 1912. Super galaxies were theorized to exist before they were first observed. Misunderstandings due to early observations led to the belief that galaxy clusters were actually one giant galaxy.

Notable examples are Abell 2029, Perseus A, Centaurus A (NGC 5128), NGC 6166, and the Perseus-Pisces super galaxy cluster. The creation of a super galaxy, by the destruction of smaller galaxies, is a recent understanding in astrophysics.

The Antennae galaxies, currently in collision, are predicted to eventually form a supergalaxy. A super galaxy is not the same as a supercluster. (de Vaucouleurs first called the nearest cluster of galaxies the "Local Supergalaxy," but in 1958 he renamed it the Local Supercluster. )

Print references

 * The Super-Galaxy Hypothesis

Shapley, H.

Harvard College Observatory Circular, 1930, vol. 350, pp.1-7
 * The Supergalaxy

Gérard de Vaucouleurs,

The New Astronomy, a Scientific American Book. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1955., p.99
 * The distribution of bright galaxies and the local supergalaxy

de Vaucouleurs, Gérard

Vistas in Astronomy, vol. 2, Issue 1, pp.1584-160 1956


 * Radio Radiation from the Supergalaxy

J. D. KRAUS & H. C. KO

Radio Observatory, Department of Electrical Engineering, Ohio State University

Nature 172, 538 - 539 (19 September 1953); 10.1038/172538b0
 * Supergalactic Studies. V. The Supergalactic Anisotropy of the Redshift-Magnitude Relation Derived from Nearby Groups and SC Galaxies

de Vaucouleurs, G. Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 205, pp. 13-28 (1976).
 * The Radio Spectrum of OQ 208-Markarian 668

Kojoian, G., Dickinson, D. F., Tovmassian, H. M., & Dinger, A. S.

Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 10, p.675
 * Reports on Radio Astronomy

Northcott, R. J.

Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, Vol. 49, p.33
 * Loop Structures

Haslam, C. G. T., Kahn, F. D., & Meaburn, J.

Astronomy and Astrophysics, Vol. 12, p. 388 (1971)
 * Explorers of the Southern Sky: A History of Australian Astronomy

Raymond Haynes
 * De-Vaucouleurs Gerard

Wolfendale, A. W.

ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY. QUARTERLY JOURNAL V. 22, P. 352, 1981
 * Physics of Atomic Nuclei

A. V. Glushkov

Issue	Volume 70, Number 2 / February, 2007

Pages	326-341
 * Astroparticle Physics: The Universe in the Light of Cosmic Rays

By Claus Grupen, G.