text: ifall the  galaxies are getting  named....do they  know what their name  s  are......seeb? ....b....what  is the  name  of  our  solar  system...seec ....c....what  would  you  name  our  solar  system? it would be hopeless to try to name every single one of the galaxies. there are about 50 billion of them. instead scientist give them a catalogue name like ngc 1566 (new general catalogue no. 1566 aka the seyfert galaxy). some galaxies were thought to have been nebulae or the remnants of stars. charles messier came up with a catalogue to organize them. some, like m87, were not nebulae but galaxies and globular clusters. m87 is a gigantic elliptical galaxy that has a supermassive black hole, some 3 billion times more massive than the sun, in it´s center. so before m87 was discovered to be a galaxy it actually had a name. the romantic name m87.  our solarsystem is simply called "sol" after our parent star.