by SPACE.com Staff
Date: 27 June 2012 Tim
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| These images, taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, show an arc of blue light behind an extremely massive cluster of galaxies, called IDCS J1426.5+3508, which is located 10 billion light-years away. CREDIT: NASA/ESA/University of Florida, Gainsville/University of Missouri-Kansas City/UC Davis |
The most massive faraway cluster of galaxies has been found, thanks to a fortuitous astrophysical alignment that helped astronomers detect the mammoth grouping.
The galaxy cluster, named IDCS J1426.5+3508, is located a staggering 10 billion light-years away from Earth, and researchers spotted the behemoth because its gravitational field is so strong that it is warping the light coming from a galaxy behind it. Galaxy clusters are the most massive structures in our universe, and are made up of hundreds to thousands of galaxies that are bound together by gravity./.../
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