Disc galaxies have a more complex distribution of stellar populations than ellipticals, featuring ongoing star formation as well as a substantial presence of old stars.

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Even though a galaxy’s electromagnetic spectrum comes from ordinary matter (baryons), it is gravitationally bound predominantly by dark matter, which contributes about 85 percent of its mass.

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