El Gordo
galaxy cluster
El Gordo (lit. The Fat One) (ACT-CL J0102-4915 or SPT-CL J0102-4915) is the largest distant galaxy cluster seen as of 2011.
It has (2014) the record for being the largest distant galaxy cluster we have discovered. Its mass is slightly less than three quadrillion solar masses[1][2][3][4] Later its mass was reduced to about 2.1 quadrillion solar masses with a 10% uncertainty.
It was found by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (funded by the National Science Foundation) and the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope.[5]
References
change- ↑ Guinness World Records 2014, Page 030.
- ↑ Boen, Brooke; Dunbar, Brian (16 April 2014). "Monster "El Gordo" Galaxy Cluster is bigger than thought". NASA. Retrieved 17 April 2014.
- ↑ NASA, "El Gordo Galaxy Cluster" Archived 2012-01-13 at the Wayback Machine, 10 January 2012 (accessed 7 July 2012)
- ↑ Monster NASA "Monster "El Gordo" Galaxy Cluster is bigger than thought"
- ↑ CNN News 'Fat' galaxy cluster discovered 7 billion light-years away Archived 2017-08-16 at the Wayback Machine