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Largest Galaxy Proto-Supercluster Found
Posted on 10/18/18 at 6:09 pm
Posted on 10/18/18 at 6:09 pm
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An international team of astronomers has discovered a titanic structure in the early universe, just 2 billion years after the Big Bang. This galaxy proto-supercluster, nicknamed Hyperion, is the largest and most massive structure yet found at such a remote time and distance.
The team that made the discovery was led by Olga Cucciati of Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF) Bologna, Italy, and project scientist Brian Lemaux in the Department of Physics, College of Letters and Science at the University of California, Davis, and included Lori Lubin, professor of physics at UC Davis. They used the VIMOS instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope in Paranal, Chile, to identify a gigantic proto-supercluster of galaxies forming in the early universe, just 2.3 billion years after the Big Bang.
Hyperion is the largest and most massive structure to be found so early in the formation of the universe, with a calculated mass more than 1 million billion times that of the sun. This enormous mass is similar to that of the largest structures observed in the universe today, but finding such a massive object in the early universe surprised astronomers
An international team of astronomers has discovered a titanic structure in the early universe, just 2 billion years after the Big Bang. This galaxy proto-supercluster, nicknamed Hyperion, is the largest and most massive structure yet found at such a remote time and distance.
The team that made the discovery was led by Olga Cucciati of Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF) Bologna, Italy, and project scientist Brian Lemaux in the Department of Physics, College of Letters and Science at the University of California, Davis, and included Lori Lubin, professor of physics at UC Davis. They used the VIMOS instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope in Paranal, Chile, to identify a gigantic proto-supercluster of galaxies forming in the early universe, just 2.3 billion years after the Big Bang.
Hyperion is the largest and most massive structure to be found so early in the formation of the universe, with a calculated mass more than 1 million billion times that of the sun. This enormous mass is similar to that of the largest structures observed in the universe today, but finding such a massive object in the early universe surprised astronomers
This post was edited on 10/18/18 at 6:10 pm
Posted on 10/18/18 at 6:11 pm to DavidTheGnome
Fricking libs and their telescopes.
Kidding. Wrong board.
Kidding. Wrong board.
Posted on 10/18/18 at 6:14 pm to DavidTheGnome
quote:Thank you, Sheldon....
just 2.3 billion years after the Big Bang.
Posted on 10/18/18 at 6:30 pm to DavidTheGnome
We need a Science Board.
Posted on 10/18/18 at 6:35 pm to DavidTheGnome
quote:
Largest Galaxy Proto-Supercluster Found
The scale of these structures is beyond comprehension. However, the Milky Way is in one of the largest known voids in the Universe and that luck probably played a role in life developing on Earth.
Posted on 10/18/18 at 7:00 pm to Perfect Circle
quote:
We need a Science Board.
Also need a home ec board for the newly divorced.
Posted on 10/18/18 at 7:02 pm to DavidTheGnome
sounds like prime real estate for a humongus clusterfrick.
Posted on 10/18/18 at 7:03 pm to DavidTheGnome
So you’re telling me Trump colluded with members of the Hyperion Galaxy?
This is damning stuff
This is damning stuff
This post was edited on 10/18/18 at 7:07 pm
Posted on 10/18/18 at 7:06 pm to DavidTheGnome
Thought this thread was going to be about Rosie O'Donnell.
Posted on 10/18/18 at 7:06 pm to DavidTheGnome
If you're going to post this on the Poliboard, you'll need to explain how this is Obama's fault.
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