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Introducing El Gordo, the largest distant galaxy cluster

Wed, 25th Jan 2012

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El Gordo, or "ACT-CL J0102-4915" as it's officially known, is the largest, most distant galaxy cluster ever discovered.  At over  seven billion light years away, it's extremely distant, but extremely interesting....

References

  • The El Gordo Galaxy - NASA Chandra
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