9:00 the Galaxy shall be called Mjölnir aka Thor's massive hammer

All galaxies spins around, and are therefor Minogue-galaxies. But since this one spins the fastest, how about calling it the "Highly Minogue"- galaxy?

The BFG? (Big Friendly Galaxy of course ;) )

Would the astronomers studying these galaxies rotating at extreme speeds be called Spin Doctors?

Well, Kylie Minogue was in a Doctor Who episode, so she sort of has space experience.

Dr Becky: Minogue's galaxy Me, a millennial: Haha, as in Kylie? Dr Becky: Yes Me: 😲😲😲

I easily get lost staring at high-res images of spiral galaxies. The beauty of it and the sheer awesome scale of it boggle the imagination. And then you look at the points of light in the background and realize that they are all themselves more distant galaxies.

In true original astronomy naming... Big fast spinney thing.💫

I found myself wondering... "Will that plant in the back fit the black hole in the cabinet?"

I honestly love the name Minogue Galaxy! As for the ISOHDFS27 massive galaxy, i suddenly remembered Queen's "Fat Bottomed Girls", wich was composed by Brian May... And being such massive galaxy, we can only assume it logically has/had large amounts of cosmic dust (see where i'm heading?😁 ). Why not calling it the May galaxy, or BMay, etc..? 😅 Well, he sure is a man of music and Science.. It would be well deserved.

The best channel for cool astrophysics facts and horribly outdated references

Another wicked video Dr. Becky, it's so great to hear about all the interesting current ideas and news floating about in astronomy circles - I especially have an interest in huge, gargantuan objects, so heading about these galaxies was especially captivating! I think it should be named the Blue Whale Galaxy, after the biggest living creature here on Earth (and also my favourite hehe). P.S. I'm spinning around is a banger, so great choice!

Love the channel. Becky has lots of personality in ways that the scientists I work with do not. When I lose track of the astrophysics, I stay for the singing!

So happy to see you get awarded..... you deserve it... you have great communication skills you look down to earth you simplify things while explain them... Great positive attitude along with serious scientific information... Congatulations!!

Dr. Becky + sense of humor + pop culture references + ASTRONOMY. I'm in heaven, I would listen to you all day. Looking forward to Rubin's Galaxy video. Another great video, thanks.

Ok, I don't comment very often but when someone makes science relevant and fun I have to give them credit. I am subscribing to your endorsement of knowledge...

Congratulations to 100.000 subscibers... 😀 Its nice to se a really good channel grow that fast... 👍

Sign seen at a space zoo: DON'T FEED THE BLACK HOLES".

I really like your style Dr Becky!! I'd love a video about data and image processing in astronomy. Have a nice day

So many questions.. so few answers.. just more questions.. also, it’s been awhile since I’ve heard that song.. 😉😂 Thank you again Dr. Becky! 👏🏻

Gargantua galaxy comes to mind. Thanks Dr. Becky for some great insights!

Should anyone receive a signal "I'm not fat, I'm big dark mattered" from that direction, then it's definitely called Cartman galaxy.

Love all your videos. Xx

Can you make a video of the rarest galaxies in the universe? Love your videos by the way!

Literally the first song I heard on the radio after watching this video was "Spinning Around" by Kylie Minogue. WTF

Hi Dr. Becky, you made my day!! How about Blue Whale Galaxy or Patagotitan mayorum Galaxy?

"Pink Floyd Dark Side of the Moon Style" - I love you SOOO much!

Exelent video, thanks!

Thanks for sharing Dr Becky 🌌🇦🇺

The galaxy should be named: "the wikipedia spiral galaxy"

"My dark matter " you make me smile and laugh every time! Love you enthusiasm ! Thank you for your time and knowledge .

Dr. Becky, I love your channel! When you read about new galaxies like these, do you build a quick mental map of where it is? Like....which direction you’d point to see it, what other galaxies/universe landmarks it’s near, etc? For things in the Milky Way, the zodiac would be the map I guess I’d use, but for galaxies they could be anywhere in the skies. Just wondering! I have a terrible mental map of the Universe, and it’d be so cool to hear about what yours is like.

U got me singing"Spinning around ..round and a round ..its cause of my DARK MATTER THAT I AM LIKE THIS!!!....LOVE THE SHOW

Good stuff, learnt something new!

What video editing software do you use? Great video!

While I did not learn enough to get my doctorate, it was drummed into my head that you can show an apparently significant correlation of anything using log-log graphs -- like the ones shown in this video. Meaning that log-log graphs can be useful, but must be used with a great deal of care.

I'm glad to be not the only one when I just want to lookup something and then ending up hours later followed many links to several topics and have kinda 30 tab open in the browser.

The heaviest galaxy should be called "LEMMY" after the late Mr. Kilmister the heaviest guy of all time. 🤗🤘

What’s a wonderful coincidence! I can imagine how happy you were after seeing that article.

So i presume the most charming Galaxy is going to be called Becky's Galaxy 🤔🙂. Love your channel and work. Greatings from the Netherlands.

Bigger Faster Stronger! Perhaps the Daft Punk Galaxy? :-) I love both your enthusiasm and knowledge, and the willingness to share both. Also, I also get a real kick out of your "bloopers" at the end of your videos! You are the Jackie Chan of astrophysics! LOL! Finally, I sent you a PM on Facebook regarding this subject - perhaps we'll get to see a "Dr. Becky Blooper Reel"? ;-)

Great video Dr. Becky! But wait, I have a Cosmic Question: How do I get a signed copy of your book? Please inform......... 👍👍👍👍😉😉😉😉😍😍😍😍

Another great vlog. You mentioned APOD(googled. now second best internet site) Question.. Dr. Becky Is there any other internet sites that would interest our quest for Astronomy UBII (Useless But Interesting Information). Still waiting for your music video. A little dance video would be good.

9:17 Yea, but if you give the heaviest galaxy a title like "Giant" or something like that, then when you find the next biggest galaxy you'll have to call it "Giant 2" because Giant is already in use. Then, after the discovery of many more biggest ones you might get to "Giant 34" and tire off saying Giant all the time so you'll just call it "G-34". Oh wait, look were we got, we're back to the meaningless numbers and letters.

I feel compelled to share with you Dr Becky...I've been recently exposed to the awesome advances made with telescopes and the amazing size of them..just saying!!! What an exciting time to be in your field!... the next few years and I'm talking less than a decade are going to be beyond awesome!...just saying...my eyes and ears are going to be on you!😊

How about Brother Galaxy. "He ain't heavy, he's my brother"

Like your shirt I have done a lot of backing there it is beautiful!

great video

It definitely needs to be the Jabba galaxy.

great job

This make so much sense

9:00 I suggest "Smethurst's Galaxy" because I know of a really great astronomer after a Dr. R. Smethurst

Really interesting!

Love your vids I always feel smarter after watching.😂

Galaxy BlahblahF27 (keeping with the British musician theme) should be "Gabriel's Galaxy" because it is "Big Time" I LOVE the constellation pillow (and facial expression) at 14:58!

6:45 "Spectrometer-device-thingy. It's a scientific term." You know, given how bad Physicist and Astrophysicist are at naming things, it wouldn't surprise me :P (My all time favourite term is 'Nuclear Pasta' btw.) Also how about a 'Breaking Sky News' or something like that? For things like that huge explosion.

Becky I look forward to seeing your videos every week

I'll say Fat Albert. :-) (I love "that's science in a nutshell")

Becky, get a $99 or less webcam for your laptop/computer. No video length limits and 2k video. Set your sound inputs on Mac/Pc to be whatever microphone/input source you use and set the video input to be the webcam. Both OS's make it easy. Thanks for all you do!

I watched your video on star creation. This leads me to believe that in the areas of the Galaxy where star creation is at a maximum actually contributes to the spinning speed of the galaxy.

Woohoo! We're lucky to get another fantastic science video from Dr. Becky -- KZfaq's favorite physicist! Thanks again!!!

My utterly non-expert thought is that friction in normal matter may put an upper bound on rotation speed. The inner tracks are still orbiting more frequently than the outer because the distance is shorter, so baryonic matter may lose energy to friction at an ever-growing rate as the rotation speed goes up. The reason a galaxy could spin up like that would be because that baryonic matter is already gone. Less load on the engine, and it's _able_ to spin faster, but that doesn't necessarily mean it will. So in principle all galaxies could spin much faster, but they've settled in at the point that doesn't cause too much drag. The ones with less dragging material settle in at a higher sustained speed, but only if they had it to start with. The energy that drives starbursts has to come from somewhere, after all. Maybe it saps angular momentum even when it's not shouting about it by forming stars. Also, I was pleased as punch to see there was a Vera Rubin Telescope. I was, however, disappointed to find it was just a renamed LSST, rather than an entirely a new telescope (because more telescopes is more good). Ah well, you can't win them all.

6:30 How about 'The Vinyl Galaxy' Looks like a Vinyl record and those spin around too :P

Name for the most massive galaxy: Keeping with the music theme... call it The Teardrop Galaxy. Teardrop was Massive Attacks most massive hit :)

I never thought I'd see some of my favourite pop science and pop music in the same video.

That fat galaxy (3 trillion X our sun's mass) should be "Mr Staypuft" galaxy! :0) Thanks for posting Dr Becky!

Again, and even on the same day. Ariel Waldman also released a video about an object she never heard of before: Sedna. Topic of the day: Enthusiastic about things you could have known. Like discovering a song from a favorite band.

“Vera Rubin ridge” is highlighted in a curiosity rover panorama a few videos down in my feed. More coincidences!

Hello Dr. B. et al, Maybe ISOHDFS27 should just be called "Meatloaf". Or even better: "Disaster Area" after the heavy metal band in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. I found a wiki page with the following excerpt from the show: "Their songs are on the whole very simple and mostly follow the familiar theme of boy-being meets girl-being beneath silvery moon, which then explodes for no adequately explored reason. Regular concert goers judged that the best sound balance was usually to be heard from within large concrete bunkers some thirty-seven miles away from the stage, whilst the musicians themselves played their instruments by remote control from within a heavily insulated spaceship which stayed in orbit around the planet - or more frequently around a completely different planet. Many worlds have now banned their act altogether, sometimes for artistic reasons, but most commonly because the band's public address system contravenes local strategic arms limitations treaties. This has not, however, stopped their earnings from pushing back the boundaries of hypermathematics, and their chief research accountant has recently been appointed Professor of Neomathematics at the the University of Maximegalon, in recognition of both his General and his Special Theories of Disaster Area Tax Returns, in which he proves that the whole fabric of the space-time continuum is not merely curved, it is in fact totally bent. "

The name should be Godzilla galaxy of course :)

Nice video

The advertisement that came on just after you asked for a name for the most massive galaxy known to date was for visiting the Bay of Fundy on Canada's East Coast. The Bay of Fundy is known for having the largest tidal range in the world. So there you go - Fundy's Galaxy.

Between Dr. Becky and Neil de grasse Tyson, astrophysics became my favorite KZfaq subject in the last few years. THANK YOU DR. BECKY! P.S. as a 68 yr man stuck in old Male behavior, impishly cute is something I can't help but notice.⚘🤗

The Minogue Galaxy....love it

Since astrophysics is basically detective work, I suggest that the most massive galaxy should be named after the most massive fictional detective, Nero Wolfe. Thanks for the video

Dr. Becky has the same enthusiasm and talent for popularizing science of a (female) colleague of mine who just got tenured. I wish Dr. Becky the same!

Hi 👋 Doc Now I can listen doing that now

If the gravity well is strong enough, perhaps even the aether inducing inertia is stripped from the outskirts, hence less inertia to overcome.

I watch star trek Voyager,DISCOVERY and Like the complex language On these shows. Usage of these kinds of terms are Mind blowing. It makes the Series more believable Dr Becky I would love to Hear your input on the language Of star trek. Good Work Mrs.

I like the Zephyr Galaxy, since we always gave that name to the fastest train.

Remember me, what my grandpa says to me *smile. Thanx Becky!

Becky, I was just wondering what your views are on the discovery of "the most powerful explosion since the Big Bang" in Ophiuchus. It's estimated to be 15 times the size of the Milky Way and it made a literal dent in the surrounding gas. It sounds to me like a supermassive black hole bit off more than it can chew and burped. 😁

I approve of Dr B's name for UGC 12591.

it should be called "Yo Momma" so those jokes can be said without offending anyone anymore.

"Dead or Alive" comes to mind with Pete Burns 80's big hair

ISOHDFS27 - An Absolute Unit Of A Galaxy

At t=2:23, the light represented at the violet end of the spectrum is moving slower than the light waves representing the red end while they're in the prism. Later, at t=2:33, violet is faster in the prism than the red. Ignoring the contradiction, my understanding is that the speed of light may be slower in one transparent medium than another, (glass vs. air) but its speed is constant independent of frequency. Am I missing something or are these representations exercising artistic license?

Dark matter is frictionless. Matter isn't. Matter forms (therefore) a disc. Dark matter doesn't. Maybe that is the explanation for the low matter content in relation to the very high rotation speed. No friction.

Burps are unidirectional, but these galaxies apparently have it coming out both ends. As long as we're on a roll with naming things, perhaps we should call this gas discharge "Montezuma's Revenge".

Great content as always! 2 trillion solar masses made me wonder, with Andromeda around 3 times the number of stars, how does the mass compare to the Milky Way? My own spiral seems inconclusive, Milky Way at ~1.5 trillion but Andromeda at ~1.2 trillion. So now I’m wondering, that can’t be right... right?

Love your t-shirt DrB, have you been to Yosemite and seen Half-Dome? I think the heaviest Galaxy should be called “yo-moma”, and yes I’m a white, Southern English, 55 year old male!

Dear Dr. Becky, Could you provide a link to a paper with the rotation curve of UGC 12591 or a Python script extracting that information from a database., if that information exists?

Dr. Becky, An off topic side question... Do you think Oumuamua could have been a star fragment? Similar to how lava spits are made. To me that shape and length have an uncanny resemblance..... My hypothesis- The star starts to produce iron and (1) shoots it out from the core (2) the iron is molten in the outer layers of the star from many commit & asteroid impacts and when the star explodes the spit is created and thrown off from the surface. I do a lot of R&D in my day job and these two possibilities made the most sense to me. Your thoughts Doctor?

Is it posible to detect at our normal terrestrial time (in one minute) a real movement on that fast spining galaxy? Or is its radius so big that 500 kps is just to small of an arc? (Am I “frasing” correctly (from my spanish mind?).

in keeping with astrophysicist naming I'd go with The VLG or VMG. Kinda like the VLA radio telescope(s).

Maybe at a certain point, rotational speed, whatever, these galaxies start flinging normal matter towards the outskirts? Maybe they've had an interaction with another galaxy that helped? I noticed from both photos that they don't look as tightly organized as other galaxies.

@Dr. Becky, I asked a question on another of your video's with no responce (but thats OK). I asked " being galactic centers have allot of radation (light, UV, heat, ext) could there be habital zones that cover entire solar systems including their planets & moons plus rogue planets the orbit close enough to the galactic centers?" Not including gravitational stresses as they would be hard to calculate.

You already said a good name. Call it "Big Behemoth". Or even better "Becky's Big Behemoth"! I realized the possible alliteration as I was typing. Sounds like we need more examples of even faster spinning or heavier galaxies with relatively reduced normal matter. Are two enough to hypothesize that the curve flattens or hypothesize anything really? We just need more data points at the upper ends of the chart, if those galaxies exist. Not sure what camera you have but I use a d5300 which has a 10minute limit, but after playing with the settings I set it to 30 minutes. You might be able to change that if you look it up. And also consider setting up something permanent with a camlink, dummy battery, and obs studio.

Lol, hi from Scotland and props for following up a sentence with Scotland in it with reigning as it sounds like a common occupational hazard of being a Scot!

Since Dr. Becky has suggested that ISOHDFS27 needs a better name, I propose that it be officially named Smethurst's Galaxy.