Tuesday, 12 January 2016

This extremely massive galaxy cluster weighs as much as 500 trillion Suns

This extremely massive galaxy cluster weighs as much as 500 trillion Suns

The largest galaxy cluster that existed in the early portion of the Universe's history has been analysed by astronomers, and they've estimated that it weighs as much as 500 trillion Suns. The galaxy cluster - officially dubbed IDCS J1426.5+3508 is located some 10 billion light-years away from Earth. It's so distant, in fact, that scientists say the light we can detect from it dates back to when the Universe was only a quarter of its current age.

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