Virgo Cluster

The Local Group actually experiences the mass of the Virgo Supercluster as the Virgocentric flow.

[4] 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.

[7] As of 2004[update], it is believed that the spiral galaxies of the cluster are distributed in an oblong prolate filament, approximately four times as long as it is wide, stretching along the line of sight from the Milky Way.

Molecular gasses in Virgo Cluster has been swept away by a huge cosmic broom that is preventing nearby galaxies from birthing new stars.

[17] As with many other rich galaxy clusters, Virgo's intracluster medium is filled with a hot, rarefied plasma at temperatures of 30 million kelvins that emits X-Rays.

[21] The ICM also contains some globular clusters,[23][24][25] possibly stripped off dwarf galaxies,[25] and even at least one star formation region.

Turbulence may prevent galaxy clusters from cooling ( Chandra X-ray ).
Map of the Virgo Supercluster centered on the Local Group (image diameter 200 Mly ≈ 60 Mpc ). The Virgo Cluster is visible in the center right of the image, at about 50 Mly from the Local Group.
Photograph of the Virgo Cluster with labelled galaxies
Virgo Supercluster
Virgo Supercluster