Most distant massive galaxy cluster identified
The early universe was a chaotic mess of gas
and matter that only began to coalesce into distinct galaxies hundreds
of millions of years after the Big Bang. It would take several billion
more years for such galaxies to assemble into massive galaxy clusters—or
so scientists had thought.
Now
astronomers at MIT, the University of Missouri, the University of
Florida, and elsewhere, have detected a massive, sprawling, churning
galaxy cluster that formed only 3.8 billion years after the Big Bang.
Located 10 billion light years from Earth and potentially comprising
thousands of individual galaxies, the megastructure is about 250
trillion times more massive than the sun, or 1,000 times more massive
than the Milky Way galaxy.
Astronomers have
detected a massive, sprawling, churning galaxy cluster that formed only
3.8 billion years after the Big Bang. The cluster, shown here, is the
most massive cluster of galaxies yet discovered in the first 4 billion
years after the Big Bang. Credit: NASA, European Space Agency,
University of Florida, University of Missouri, and University of
California
Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2016-01-distant-massive-galaxy-cluster.html#jCp
detected a massive, sprawling, churning galaxy cluster that formed only
3.8 billion years after the Big Bang. The cluster, shown here, is the
most massive cluster of galaxies yet discovered in the first 4 billion
years after the Big Bang. Credit: NASA, European Space Agency,
University of Florida, University of Missouri, and University of
California
Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2016-01-distant-massive-galaxy-cluster.html#jCp
Astronomers have
detected a massive, sprawling, churning galaxy cluster that formed only
3.8 billion years after the Big Bang. The cluster, shown here, is the
most massive cluster of galaxies yet discovered in the first 4 billion
years after the Big Bang. Credit: NASA, European Space Agency,
University of Florida, University of Missouri, and University of
California
Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2016-01-distant-massive-galaxy-cluster.html#jCp
detected a massive, sprawling, churning galaxy cluster that formed only
3.8 billion years after the Big Bang. The cluster, shown here, is the
most massive cluster of galaxies yet discovered in the first 4 billion
years after the Big Bang. Credit: NASA, European Space Agency,
University of Florida, University of Missouri, and University of
California
Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2016-01-distant-massive-galaxy-cluster.html#jCp
Astronomers have
detected a massive, sprawling, churning galaxy cluster that formed only
3.8 billion years after the Big Bang. The cluster, shown here, is the
most massive cluster of galaxies yet discovered in the first 4 billion
years after the Big Bang. Credit: NASA, European Space Agency,
University of Florida, University of Missouri, and University of
California
Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2016-01-distant-massive-galaxy-cluster.html#jCp
detected a massive, sprawling, churning galaxy cluster that formed only
3.8 billion years after the Big Bang. The cluster, shown here, is the
most massive cluster of galaxies yet discovered in the first 4 billion
years after the Big Bang. Credit: NASA, European Space Agency,
University of Florida, University of Missouri, and University of
California
Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2016-01-distant-massive-galaxy-cluster.html#jCp
