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lenticular galaxy
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- A galaxy having a central bulge surrounded by a flattened disk with no pattern of spiral arms. Lenticular galaxies are intermediate in the Hubble classification system between elliptical and spiral forms and are classified using the designation S0, or SB0 if they have a bar of stars, gas, and dust through the nucleus. Like spiral galaxies, they are disk-shaped with a central bulge, but like elliptical galaxies they contain relatively little gas and dust.
- Compare elliptical galaxySee more at Hubble classification system
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An over-massive black hole in the compact lenticular galaxy NGC 1277.
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The object is classified as a lenticular galaxy, with aspects of both elliptical and spiral galaxies.
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The object is classified as a lenticular galaxy, with aspects of both elliptical and spiral galaxies.
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The object is classified as a lenticular galaxy, with aspects of both elliptical and spiral galaxies.
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Near it sits a lens-shaped or lenticular galaxy called IC 4970, which appears to have crashed through the spiral in recent astronomical times.
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