Question

How does the Milky Way galaxy compare to most others, according to Shapely and Oort? (

Answer 1

Shapley and Oort put the final indignation to the Earth centered theory, by saying that we lived in a fairly typical galaxy amongst hundreds of millions of other.

Answer 2

The Milky Way is a spiral and most smaller galaxies are large clouds. We also have a supermassive black hole in our core, most spiral galaxies have one.