I'm big, but hot...

CaptainGordo
CaptainGordo Posts: 4,437 Member
edited October 2024 in Chit-Chat
El Gordo: Big, hot galaxy cluster found

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RUTGERS (US) — Astrophysicists have discovered the largest galaxy cluster ever seen in the distant universe, located more than 7 billion light years from Earth.

Officially known as ACT-CL J0102-4915, the galaxy cluster has been nicknamed “El Gordo” (the big one or the fat one in Spanish) by the researchers who discovered it.

The cluster was found using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and the National Science Foundation-funded Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) in Chile. The large distance means it is being observed at a young age.

“This cluster is the most massive, the hottest, and gives off the most X-rays of any known cluster at this distance or beyond,” says Felipe Menanteau, study leader and postdoctoral researcher in the department of physics and astronomy at Rutgers.

http://www.futurity.org/science-technology/el-gordo-big-hot-galaxy-cluster-found/

Thanks to those fine friends that pointed this out to me. :laugh:

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  • _snw_
    _snw_ Posts: 1,298 Member
    that's rad to share the name.


    My name can only be found in pregnancy.
  • Scott613
    Scott613 Posts: 2,317 Member
    This is most excellent. I don't even use excellent but, I must with this thread.
  • taso42
    taso42 Posts: 8,979 Member
    Congratulations! :flowerforyou:
  • jamk1446
    jamk1446 Posts: 5,577 Member
    You should make that your avatar.
  • Thomasm198
    Thomasm198 Posts: 3,187 Member
    My name is as common as muck. It seems like everybody has had the same name as me. sad030.gif
  • FearAnLoathing
    FearAnLoathing Posts: 4,852 Member
    :flowerforyou:
  • Contrarian
    Contrarian Posts: 8,137 Member
    Very cool!
  • CaptainGordo
    CaptainGordo Posts: 4,437 Member
    This is most excellent. I don't even use excellent but, I must with this thread.
    I thank you for pointing me to it, bro.
  • CaptainGordo
    CaptainGordo Posts: 4,437 Member
    My name is as common as muck. It seems like everybody has had the same name as me. sad030.gif
    I know a couple of Thomases, but no Thomasm198.
  • infamousmk
    infamousmk Posts: 6,025 Member
    Fantastic!!!!
  • anubis609
    anubis609 Posts: 3,966 Member
    That is astronomically cool.
  • Rayman79
    Rayman79 Posts: 2,009 Member
    Well there's the proof, he may be big and hot, but he might also give you cancer! Beware ElGordo!
  • CaptainGordo
    CaptainGordo Posts: 4,437 Member
    That is astronomically cool.
    I_see_what_you_did_there_super.jpg
  • CaptainGordo
    CaptainGordo Posts: 4,437 Member
    Well there's the proof, he may be big and hot, but he might also give you cancer! Beware ElGordo!
    SHHHHHHHHHHH! You're scaring everyone away before they can absorb my deadly radiation!
  • _Timmeh_
    _Timmeh_ Posts: 2,096 Member
    I wonder if the other clusters are trying to sabotage it.
  • CaptainGordo
    CaptainGordo Posts: 4,437 Member
    I wonder if the other clusters are trying to sabotage it.
    Of course they are. They are jealous of him.
  • xtinalovexo
    xtinalovexo Posts: 1,376 Member
    :love: you're beautiful, i can't take my eyes of you. :love:
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