A quadrillion suns: astronomers showed the supercluster of galaxies

In 2014 astronomers using the orbiting telescope “Hubble” found that a huge cluster of galaxies, which is at a distance of more than seven billion light years from Earth, weighs as much as three quadrillion (a million billion) Suns. This is stated in the comment NASA photos of the cluster.

“No wonder he was nicknamed “El Gordo” (“Fat one” in Spanish – ed.). Officially known as ACT-CLJ0102-4915, this cluster is the biggest, the hottest and the brightest x-ray galaxy cluster ever discovered on the outer reaches of the Universe,” write in the aerospace Agency of the USA.

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Galaxy clusters – the largest objects in the Universe are bound by gravity. They are formed over billions of years, when a small group of galaxies “slow” are combined into one.

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“El Gordo” actually consists of two clusters of galaxies that collide at speeds of millions of miles per hour.

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Photo: ESA/NASA

Hubble found that bofmost of the mass of this cluster accounts for “dark” matter. Read more about this galaxy cluster , you can read (English). on the website of the telescope “Chandra”.

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