Researchers in a paper have mentioned that the estimated mass of our Milky Way galaxy is 890 billion times the mass of our Sun, weighing about 1.8 tredecillion kilograms (1 tredecillion representing 1 followed by 42 zeroes).
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The researchers claimed that its dark matter’s mass was alone found to be equal to about 830 billion Suns. The galaxy was approximated to be 256,000 light-years across. Reaercges used data from multipole resources to make an estimation. The data provided information about the way stars, gas and other material in the galaxy move.
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