Astronomers have just discovered what may become the largest thing in the modern universe: a giant cluster of at least 14 galaxies, set on a massive collision course.
This is the absolute first time that scientists have ever detected an astronomical event of such colossal proportions, ScienceDaily reports.
This ground-breaking discovery depicts the birth of a mammoth super-galaxy formed over 12 billion years ago when the universe was just 1.4-billion-years-old. It has taken this long for its emitted light to reach us.
Computer simulations revealed that, over time, the 14-galaxy “megamerger” will evolve into one of the most massive structures in the universe. The protocluster encompasses a mass 10 trillion times bigger than that of the sun, and scientists predict it may expand a hundred times more. Ten Trillion Times Bigger Than The Sun!
At such a staggering size of 1,000 trillion times the mass of our sun, this giant band of galaxies may grow to rival the Coma Cluster, one of the richest galaxy clusters known to man.
(from Lozovschi)
1,000 trillion times the mass of our sun!
There was a time in man's history where the universe seemed too complex for man; now it seems too complex for God.
This is the absolute first time that scientists have ever detected an astronomical event of such colossal proportions, ScienceDaily reports.
This ground-breaking discovery depicts the birth of a mammoth super-galaxy formed over 12 billion years ago when the universe was just 1.4-billion-years-old. It has taken this long for its emitted light to reach us.
Computer simulations revealed that, over time, the 14-galaxy “megamerger” will evolve into one of the most massive structures in the universe. The protocluster encompasses a mass 10 trillion times bigger than that of the sun, and scientists predict it may expand a hundred times more. Ten Trillion Times Bigger Than The Sun!
At such a staggering size of 1,000 trillion times the mass of our sun, this giant band of galaxies may grow to rival the Coma Cluster, one of the richest galaxy clusters known to man.
(from Lozovschi)
1,000 trillion times the mass of our sun!
There was a time in man's history where the universe seemed too complex for man; now it seems too complex for God.
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