Monster El Gordo galaxy cluster is bigger than thought - Astronomers have weighed the largest known galaxy cluster in the distant universe and found that it definitely lives up to its nickname: El Gordo (Spanish for the fat one). By precisely measuring how much the gravity from the clusters mass warps images of far-more-distant background galaxies, a team of astronomers has calculated the clusters mass to be as much as 3 million billion times the mass of our Sun. ... ow.ly/2Fl18I
Posted on: Fri, 04 Apr 2014 05:30:37 +0000
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